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Kellis
Ismant el-Kharab, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt · Africa: Coptic Egypt
25.516, 29.095
Attested. Archaeologically attested, with dated papyri.
Kellis was a Roman-era village in the Dakhla Oasis that was abandoned around 400 CE. Excavations found some of Egypt's earliest church buildings, from the 4th century, and a large cache of Manichaean texts and letters in Coptic, Greek and Syriac. It gives a rare view of everyday religious life in a mixed village.
Source stance: neutral. Archaeology and documentary papyri.
People and groups named here
- Manichaean households of Kellis (named in letters)
Sources
- Pleiades place 776189: Kellis
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Kellis (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
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