Cynopolis
Κυνων πόλις
Cynopolis (Κυνων πόλις, Steph. B. sub voce Ptol. 4.5.59: Eth. Κυνοπολίτης), a town in the Cynopolite nome of the Heptanomis, lat. 28° 2′ N. The dog-headed deity Anubis was here worshipped. (Strab. xvii. p.812.) It is probably the Canum of Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.11). Cynopolis is the modern Samnallus. There was in the Delta also a town of this name, and with the same local deity. (Strab. xvii. p.802; Plut. de Is. et Osir. 100.72.)
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.