Caenepolis
Καινὴ πόλις
Caenepolis or CAENE (Καινὴ πόλις, Ptol. 4.5.72; Geog. Rav. p. 104), the modern Clenè was the southernmost town of the Panopolite nome in the Thebaid of Egypt. It stood upon the eastern bank of the Nile, 2 geographical miles NW. of Coptos. Herodotus (2.91) mentions a town Nea. polis (Νέη πόλις), near Chemmiis in Upper Egypt, which is probably the same with Caenepolis. (Comp. Mannert, vol. 10.1, p. 371.) Panopolis, which was north of Chemmis, at one period went by the name of Caene or Caene-polis.
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.