Ancyron Polis
Ἀγκυρῶν πόλις
Ancyron Polis (Ἀγκυρῶν πόλις, Ptol. 4.5.57; Steph. B. sub voce: Eth. Ἀγκυροπολίτης), was a town of Middle Egypt, 10 miles southward of the Heptanomite Aphroditopolis. It derived its appellation from the manufacture of stone anchors cut from the neighbouring quarries.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.