Pathros
title: "Pathros" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["geography-of-ancient-egypt", "hebrew-bible-places", "upper-egypt"] topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathros" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Noahsworld_map_Version2.png" caption="A map of the [[Generations of Noah]], placing the "Pathrusim" in [[Upper Egypt]]."] ::
Pathros (; Paṯrōs; , Phathōrēs; Koine , Pathourēs) refers to Upper Egypt, primarily the Thebaid where it extended from Elephantine fort to modern Asyut north of Thebes. Gardiner argues it extended to the north no further than Abydos. It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Jeremiah 44:1 and 15; Isaiah 11:11; and Ezekiel 29:14, 30:14. It is the homeland of the "Pathrusim".
The name is a loan from Egyptian pꜣ tꜣ-rsj "the southern land" (e.g., pBritish Museum EA 10375, line 16; cf. Sahidic Coptic ⲡⲁⲧⲟⲩⲣⲏⲥ and Bohairic Coptic ⲡⲁⲑⲟⲩⲣⲏⲥ.) As in Hebrew and Greek, the term was used in Akkadian by the Assyrians as akk, for example in the Annals of Esarhaddon.
References
References
- Van Den Boorn, G.P.F. (2014). "The Duties of the Vizier". Routledge.
- (1957). "The Reading of the Geographical Term [tp-rsy]". Sage Publications, Ltd..
- (1939). "A Coptic dictionary". Clarendon Press.
- (1965–1977). "Koptisches Handwörterbuch". Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag.
- "Esarhaddon 060". Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus.
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::