Pathros

Pathros (Hebrew: פַּתְרוֹס; Paṯrōs; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Φαθωρῆς, Phathōrēs; Koine ‹See Tfd›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".

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])

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

References

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

Joachim Friedrich Quack: Patros (2021). In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Michael Pietsch, Stefan Alkier (Hrsg.): Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff., Zugriffsdatum: 18. März 2022.