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Shashotep


Hypselis (or Hypsela) is the Greek name of an ancient Egyptian city and Roman bishopric, which was located near the modern town of Shutb (or ash-Shatb, Chutb).

The city was known as Shashotep by ancient Egyptians, and is first mentioned in texts dating back to the First Intermediate Period. During the subsequent Middle Kingdom it was the main town of the 11th Upper Egyptian nome. The main deity of ancient Shashotep was Khnum, who was sometimes called Lord of Shashotep. The cemeteries near the modern place Rifeh, once belonged to the town.

In Roman times, and before fading into the desert, the city became one of the suffragan sees of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antinoë, capital of the province of Thebais Prima.

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric by the names of Hypselis / Hypselitan(us) (Latin) or Ipseli (Curiate Italian). It is vacant since decades, after the offices of Alain-Sébastien Le Breton (from 1939 to 1955) and Jesús Serrano Pastor (from 1956 to his death in 1997).

Coordinates: 27°08′38″N 31°14′17″E / 27.1440°N 31.2380°E / 27.1440; 31.2380


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