Hermopolis Parva
Ἑρμοῦ πόλις μικρά
Hermopolis Parva (Ἑρμοῦ πόλις μικρά, Steph. B. sub voce Strab. xvii. p.802; Ptol. 4.5.46; It. Anton. p. 154), the modern Damanhur, was a city of the Egyptian Delta, in the nome of Alexandria, or, as it was sometimes described, the chief town of a Deltaic Hermopolite nome. It stood in lat. 31° N. on the banks of a canal which connected the lake Mareotis with the Canopic or most westerly arm of. the Nile. It was 44 miles SE. of Alexandria. (Champollion, L'Egypte, vol. ii. p. 249.) There were, besides, two other towns of the same name: 1. on an island near the city Butosos (Strab. xvii. p.802); 2. another a little below Thmuis (Strab. l.c.; Steph. B. sub voce.
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.