City in Asyut, Egypt
Cusae (Ancient Greek : Κοῦσαι or Κῶς ; Coptic : ⲕⲱⲥⲉⲓ or ⲕⲟⲥⲉⲓ )[ 2] Upper Egypt . Its Ancient Egyptian name was qjs (variant qsy ), conventionally rendered Qis or Kis , with many further transliterations such as Qosia. Today, the town is known as El Quseyya Nile in the Asyut Governorate .
History
Cusae was the capital of the 14th Nome of Upper Egypt.
Middle Kingdom
It was a cult centre for Hathor , and also contained a necropolis , Meir , which was used during the Middle Kingdom to hold the tombs of local aristocrats.
New Kingdom
At the beginning of the reign of the Theban pharaoh Kamose , Cusae marked the boundary between the northern Hyksos realm (the 15th Dynasty ) and the southern Theban kingdom (the 17th Dynasty ).[ 3]
Roman Period
During the 5th century, the city was the settlement of Legio II Flavia Constantia .
Bishopric
The bishopric of Cusae was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Antinoë , capital of the Roman province of Thebaid I . Achilles (or Achilleus) was ordained bishop of the see by Meletius of Lycopolis . Another, Elias, was of the 4th or 5th centuries.[ 4] Second Council of Constantinople (553). Later bishops took the non-Chalcedonian side, the first of them being Gregorius, who assisted Pope John II (III) of Alexandria on his deathbed.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
No longer a residential bishopric, Cusae is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see .[ 9]
See also
References
^ Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II John Murray . p. 1044 . ^ a b Gauthier, Henri (1928). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 5 164, 165 . ^ Grimal, Nicolas (1992). A History of Ancient Egypt . Oxford: Blackwell Books. p. 191.^ S. Timm, Das christlich-koptische Ägypten , Wiesbaden 1982-1992, 2181 e 2189 n. 4.
^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus
^ Raymond Janin, v. Cusae in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques
^ Klaas A. Worp , A Checklist of Bishops in Byzantine Egypt (A.D. 325 - c. 750) Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik ^ Sophrone Pétridès, "Cusae" in Catholic Encyclopedia ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1 ), p. 878
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