Crocodilopolis
Κροκοδείλων πόλις
Crocodilopolis (Κροκοδείλων πόλις, Ptol. 4.5.65: Eth. Κροκοδειλοπολίτης), the name of several cities in Egypt, derived from the local worship of the crocodile.
1.
Arsinoe in the Heptanomis, and the Arsinoite nome of the Ptolemaic era, were, under the Pharaohs, called respectively Crocodilopolis and the Crocodilopolite nome. (Steph. B. sub voce The crocodile was here domesticated and worshipped. It fed from the hands of the priests of Arsinoe. [ARSINOE]. (Aelian, H. An. 10.24; Plin. Nat. 5.9, 11, 36.16.)
2.
A town in the Aphroditopolite nome of the Thebaid, on the western bank of the Nile, lat. 25° 6′ N., of which ruins are still visible at Embeshanda, on the verge of the Libyan desert. [W.B.D]
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.