Athribis: The Temple of Ptolemy XII

Repyt, the lioness-headed consort of Min, depicted at the Ptolemaic temple at Athribis. Repyt was one of several goddesses who act as an ‘eye of Ra’, and so she is represented with a solar disc. Image: Christian Leitz/Athribis Project, CC BY 4.0 via Wikicommons Athribis is located seven kilometres south-west of the modern city of Sohag on the west bank of the Nile. Confusingly, there were two sites called Athribis in ancient Egypt, one in the southern Delta (capital of the tenth Lower Egyptian nome) and the other in Upper Egypt. It is the latter site that is the subject of this article. Athribis, on the west bank, stood opposite the nome capital Akhmim, on the east bank. It is tem