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[[File:Noahsworld map Version2.png|thumb|300px|right|A map of the [[Generations of Noah]], placing the "Pathrusim" in [[Upper Egypt]].]]

'''Pathros''' ({{langx|he|פַּתְרוֹס}}; {{lang|he-Latn|Paṯrōs}}; {{langx|grc|Φαθωρῆς}}, {{lang|grc-Latn|Phathōrēs}}; [[Koine]] {{langx|grc|Παθούρης}}, {{lang|grc-Latn|Pathourēs}}) refers to [[Upper Egypt]], primarily the [[Thebaid]] where it extended from [[Elephantine]] fort to modern [[Asyut]] north of [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]].<ref>{{Cite book|last = Van Den Boorn|first = G.P.F |date = 2014|title = The Duties of the Vizier |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=k6SOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA213|publisher = Routledge|isbn = 9781136881787}}, p. 213</ref> [[Alan Gardiner|Gardiner]] argues it extended to the north no further than [[Abydos, Egypt|Abydos]].<ref>{{cite journal| last1 = Gardiner| first1 = Alan H.| title = The Reading of the Geographical Term [tp-rsy] | journal=The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology| volume = 43| publisher = Sage Publications, Ltd.| page = 4| doi = 10.1177/030751335704300104| year = 1957| s2cid = 192379697}}</ref> It is mentioned in the [[Hebrew Bible]] in [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] [[Jeremiah 44:1|44:1]] and 15; [[Book of Isaiah|Isaiah]] [[Isaiah 11|11]]:11; and [[Book of Ezekiel|Ezekiel]] [[Ezekiel 29|29]]:14, [[Ezekiel 30|30]]:14. It is the homeland of the "'''[[Pathrusim]]'''".

The name is a loan from [[Ancient Egyptian language|Egyptian]] ''pꜣ tꜣ-rsy'' "the southern land" (e.g., [http://aaew2.bbaw.de/tla/servlet/GetTextDetails?u=guest&f=0&l=0&db=0&tc=19006 pBritish Museum EA 10375, line 16]; cf. Sahidic [[Coptic language|Coptic]] {{lang|cop|ⲡⲁⲧⲟⲩⲣⲏⲥ}} and Bohairic Coptic {{lang|cop|ⲡⲁⲑⲟⲩⲣⲏⲥ}}.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Crum|first1=Walter Ewing|title=A Coptic dictionary|date=1939|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|page=300|url=http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/crum/}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Westendorf|first1=Wolfhart|title=Koptisches Handwörterbuch|date=1965–1977|publisher=Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag|location=Heidelberg|page=166}}</ref>) {{hiero|1=tp-rsy |2=<hiero>D1:Z1-M24</hiero>|align=left|era=egypt}} As in Hebrew and Greek, the term was used in [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] by the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire|Assyrians]] as {{transliteration|akk|patúrisi}}, for example in the Annals of [[Esarhaddon]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Esarhaddon 060|url=http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003289/html|website=The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period|publisher=Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus|accessdate=15 November 2014}} See line o 8'.</ref>

==See also==
* [[Generations of Noah]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==

* 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.

[[Category:Geography of ancient Egypt]]
[[Category:Hebrew Bible places]]
[[Category:Upper Egypt]]