Pachnamunis

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Pachnamunis (Greek: Παχναμουνίς or Παχνευμουνίς, Ptol. iv. 5. § 50; Παχνεμόης, Hierocles, p. 724), the principal town of the Sebennytic nome in the Egyptian Delta, at approximately latitude 31° 6′ North. It stood on the eastern shore of the Lake Butos, and very near the modern, village of Handahur. (Champollion, l'Egypte, vol. ii. p. 206.)

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1856).