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2 unusual facts about Hermopolis


Denis-Luc Frayssinous

The consecration of Frayssinous as bishop of Hermopolis in partibus, his election to the Académie française, and his appointment to the grand-mastership of the university, followed in rapid succession.

Hermopolis

The Ibis-headed god, was, with his accompanying emblems, the Ibis and the Cynocephalus or ape, the most conspicuous among the sculptures upon the great portico of the temple of Hermopolis.


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Akoris

Akoris, Egypt, an ancient Egyptian site 40km north of Hermopolis Magna

Denis-Luc Frayssinous

Mathieu-Richard-Auguste Henrion (Paris, 2 vols., 1844) for Vie de Mgr. Frayssinous, évêque d'Hermopolis (biography).


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