city
Akhmim (Panopolis)
Akhmim, Sohag, Egypt · Africa: Coptic Egypt (supplement)
26.565, 31.745
Attested. Attested by texts, papyri and finds.
Panopolis was a center of late pagan Greek culture that Shenoute of Atripe confronted. Its cemeteries have produced famous Coptic textiles and the Akhmim Codex, found in a monk's grave in 1886-87. The codex holds Greek fragments of the Gospel of Peter, the Apocalypse of Peter and 1 Enoch.
Source stance: neutral. Archaeology and papyri; Shenoute's writings are hostile toward local pagans.
People and groups named here
- Shenoute of Atripe
- Nonnus of Panopolis (poet)
Sources
- Pleiades place 756613: Panopolis/Schmin
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Akhmim (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Shenute, Saint (Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia)
Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia; The Coptic Encyclopedia (Macmillan 1991), Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Manuscripts tied to this place
Further reading
Councils here
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