Place:Naucratis, Al Buhayrah, Egypt

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NameNaucratis
Alt namesKawm Juʿayfsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Kom Giéifsource: Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Naukratissource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 641-642; GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) p 8510; Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Ναύκρατιςsource: Wikipedia
TypeCity
Coordinates30.9°N 30.583°E
Located inAl Buhayrah, Egypt
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Naucratis or Naukratis (Ancient Greek: , "Naval Command"; Egyptian: , , , Coptic: ) was a city and trading-post in ancient Egypt, located on the Canopic (western-most) branch of the Nile river, south-east of the Mediterranean sea and the city of Alexandria. Naucratis was the first and, for much of its early history, the only permanent Greek colony in Egypt, serving as a symbiotic nexus for the interchange of Greek and Egyptian art and culture.

The modern villages of Kom Gi’eif, el-Nibeira and el-Niqrash cover the archaeological site, which has become a find of the highest significance. The site is also the source of many objects of art that now are contained in many museums of the world, and is an important source of some of the earliest Greek writing in existence (according to inscriptions on the pottery).

The sister port of Naucratis was the harbour town of Heracleion, which was discovered in 2000.

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