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 APIS. ydOm on the Ef and Politoriuni and TeUeDaft on Um W. (XaAy, IHntorni, xoLl p. 211 ; Topo- grapkff o/ liome, p. 87; Abdcen, Mittel'Itatim, p 69.) [E. H. B.J . APIS C^w)i a seaport town (Poljb* £»c. Leg. 115) OB the K. coast of Airica» about 11 or 12 miles W. of Paiaetaniiun, sometimes xeckooed, to £g7pt, aod aometimca to Marmarica. Scjlax (p 44) plaoes it at tin W. bonndvy of Egypt, oo the frontier of the Mumaridae. Ptolemj (hr.. i. § 5) mentioos it as io tiiB Lxbjrae Nomoa; and so does Plhij, who cells it wjhiUs reUgionB AeggpH locus (v. 6, where the eoDuneii text makes its distance W. of Paiaeto- aimn 72 Beman miles, bat one of the best HSS. gives 12, which agrees with the distanoe of 100 stadSa in Stoabo^ xrii. pu 799)^ It seems -werj donbtfhl whether the Aps of HtRMlotas (u. 18) can be the mot place. [P. S.] APOBATHMI QAwiSaBnot), a small place in Ai^olis, near the frontiers of Cynnria, was sajd to hare been so caQed from Donans landing at this ipQC. (I^oa. ii. 38. § 4.) The snrronnding coontiy was also called Pyramia (IlvpJifua), from tfa« iwnamrnts in the form of pjramids ibnnd here. (Plot. PyrrJL 32 ; Bo6s» Seum m Fthpomu, pl52.) APCCOPA CAw<(jcoira, Steph.B. «. v.; Peiy>l M. ErytL p. 9 ; PtoL i. 17. § 7), ilagna and Panra, zci]iectiTd7.fiaa<26/ dAgoa and Cape Bedoma were tvo small towns in abaj of similar name (Ptol. L 17. § 9X  rW. B. D.] APODOTL [AxTOUA, p. 65, a.] APOIXINIS PBOMONTOBIUM QP^&KK»vqs licp0»X in N. Africa. 1. Also called *AiroXAptop (Scnk xviL pu 832), a pramontoiy on the N. coast of Africa Propria, near Utica, and forming the W. hwdhad, as the Mercnrii Pr. formed the £., of the ptaX gntf of Utica or Carthage. (Strab. I c.) This doicnptifaa, and aU the other references to it, identify it with C. JTarina or Bat Sidi AU^at-Mekhi^ and est the mofe westerly C. Zibeeb at Bos Sidi BoU' Skm$htL (It is to be observed, however, that Shaw appCes the name Zibeeb to the former). Livy (zzi. 24} mentions it as in aght of Carthage, which win appty to the former cape, but not to the latter. Ifela (i. 7) mentions it as one of the three great hndluds on this coast, between ^e otJier two, Can> Admn and Mocnrii. It is a high pointed rock, re- ■aricaUe for its whiteness. (Shaw, p. 145; Barth, Wimdenm^eny ^c^ vol i. p 71). It ii afaooBt certain that this cape was identical widk the PcLCBBUM Pr., at which Scipb landed on his expedicua to cloee the Second Punic War; and which had been fixed, in the first treaty between the Saraans and Carthaginians, as the boundary of the vcrago of the former towards the W. (Polyb. iii. 22'; lir. xzix. 27 ; Kannert, voL z. pL 2, pp. 293, tJL) 2. A pRxnootory of Manretania Cacsariensis, adja- cent to the dij of Julia Caesarea. (Plin. v. 2. s. 1 ; FroL) [P. S.] APOLLINCyPOLlS C^x6}Mfros »(JAij: £th. Egypt— 1. AroLLZKOFOus Magna (v6if fuydkn Av^AAMrg,, Strab. jcviL p. 817 ; Agartharch. p22 ; Hin. r. 9. s,ll; Pint. Is, et Osir, 50; Aelian. IliAAn, z. 2; PtoL iv. 5. §70; *AiroAA«Wa, APOLLINOPOLIS. 159 Steph. Byzant a. v.; 'AiroXAwi'ias, Hierocl. p. 732; It. Ant. p. 160, 174; Not Imp. Orient c 143. ApoUonos Snperioris [nrbs]), the modem Bdfooj was a dty of the Thebaid, on the western baiUc of the Nile, in Lat. 25° N., and about thirteen miles below the lesser Cataract Ptolemy (L c.) assigns Apollinopolis to the Hermonthite nowe, but it was more commonly regarded as the capital town of the nome ApoIIopoUtes. Under the Boman em- perora it was the seait of a Bishop's see, and the head-qnarters of the Legio II. Tn^jaaa. Its in- habitants were enemies of the crocodile and its worshippers. Both the ancient city and the uKxUm hamlet, however, derived their principal reput^ion from two temples, which are considered second only to the Temple of Denderah as specimens of the sacied structures of Egypt The modem Et{f6o is contained within the courts, or built upon the plat- form of the principal of the two temples at Apolli- nopoUa. The larger temple is in good preservation, but is partially buried by the sand, by heaps of rubbish, and by the modem town. The smaller temple, sometimes, but improperly, called a Typho- nium, is apparently an i^ppendage of the latter, and its sculptures represent the birth and education of the youthful deity. Horns, whose parents Noum, or Kneph and Athor, were worshipped in the larger edifice. The principal temple is dedicated to Noum, whose ^mbol is the disc of the sun, supported by two asps and the extended wings of a vulture. Its sculptures represent (Bosellini, Motmm, del Cvlto, p. 240, too. auLzviii.) the progress of the Sun, Phre-Hor-Hat| Lord of Heaven, moving in his bark (^Bari) through the circle of the Hours. The local name of the district round Apollinopolis was Hat, and Noum was styled Hor-hat-kah, or Horns, the tutelary genius of the land of Hat This deity forms also at Apollinopolis a triad with the goddess Athor and Hor-Senet The members of the triad are youthful gods, pointing their finger towards their mouths, and before the discovery of the hieroglyphic character were regarded as figures of Harpocrates. The entrance into the burger temple of Apolli- nopolis is a gateway (wvAc^v) 50 feet high, flaoked by two converging vdngs (irrcpd) in the form of truncated pyramids, rising to 107 fret The wings contain ten stories, are pierced by round loop-holes for the admisfiian of light, and probably aer'ed as chambers or dormitories for the priests and servitors of the temple. From the jambs of the door project two blocks of stone, which were intended, as D^non supposes, to support the heads of two colossal figures. This propylaeon leads into a large square, surrounded by a colonnade roofed with squared granite, and on the opposite side is a pronaos or portico, 53 feet in height, and having a triple row of columns, six in each row, with variously and gracefully foliaged capitals. The temple is 145 feet wide, and 424 feet long from the entrance to the opposite end. Every part of the walls is covered with hieroglyphics, and the main court ascends gradually to the pronaos by broad steps. The whole area of the building was surroimded by a wall 20 feet hig^, of great thickness. Like so many of the Egyptian temples, that of ApoUinopolis was capable of being employed as a fortress. It stood about a third of a mile from the river. The sculp- tures, although carefully and indeed beautifully executed, are of the Ptolemaic era, the earliest por-
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