Hieracon
Hieracon (It. Anton. p. 167) or THERACON (Not. Imp.), was a castle of Upper Egypt, situated on the right bank of the Nile. Here, in Roman times, was quartered the cohors prima of the Lusitanian auxiliaries. It stood nearly midway between the W. extremity of Mons Alabastrites and the city of Lycopolis, la;. 27° 15′ N. Hieracon (Ἱεράκων κώμη, Ptol. 6.7.36) is to be distinguished from Hieracompolis (Ἱεράκων πόλις, Strab. xvii. p.817), which was S. of Thebes, lat. 25° 52′ N., nearly opposite the town of Eileithuia.
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.