Pathros

Pathros (Hebrew: פַּתְרוֹס‎, Pathrôs; Greek: Φαθωρῆς, Phathōrēs; Koine Greek: Παθούρης, Pathourēs) refers to Upper Egypt, primarily the Thebaid where it extended from Elephantine fort to modern Asyut north of Thebes.[1] Gardiner argues it extended to the north no farther than Abydos.[2] 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.

A map of the Generations of Noah, placing the "Pathrusim" in Upper Egypt.

The name is a loan from Egyptian pꜣ tꜣ-rsy "the southern land" (e.g., pBritish Museum EA 10375, line 16; cf. Sahidic Coptic ⲡⲁⲧⲟⲩⲣⲏⲥ and Bohairic Coptic ⲡⲁⲑⲟⲩⲣⲏⲥ.[3][4])

tp-rsy in hieroglyphs

As in Hebrew and Greek, the term was used in Akkadian by the Assyrians as patúrisi, for example in the Annals of Esarhaddon.[5]

See also

• Generations of Noah

References

1. Van Den Boorn, G.P.F (2014). The Duties of the Vizier. Routledge. ISBN 9781136881787., p. 213
2. Gardiner, Alan H. (1957). "The Reading of the Geographical Term [tp-rsy]". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. Sage Publications, Ltd. 43: 4. doi:10.1177/030751335704300104. S2CID 192379697.
3. Crum, Walter Ewing (1939). A Coptic dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 300.
4. Westendorf, Wolfhart (1965–1977). Koptisches Handwörterbuch. Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag. p. 166.
5. "Esarhaddon 060". The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period. Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. Retrieved 15 November 2014. See line o 8'.