Umm el-Baragat Tebtunis 29°23'N 30°25'E

Tebtunis was a city and later town in Lower Egypt. The settlement was founded in approximately 1800 BCE by the Twelfth Dynasty king Amenemhat III. It was located at what is now Tell Umm el-Baragat in the Faiyum Governorate. In Tebtunis there were many Greek and Roman buildings. It was a rich town and was a very important regional center during the Ptolemaic period. It is possible that Tebtunis was identical with a town called Theodosiopolis (from Koine Greek: Θεοδοσιούπολις Theodosioúpolis), which is only attested since late antiquity. In Coptic, it became Toutōn (Arabic Tuṯun). In the...