Troicus Mons
Τρωικὸν ὄρος
Troicus Mons (Τρωικὸν ὄρος, Strab. xvii. p.809; Steph. B. sub voce Τρωικοῦ λιθου ὄρος, Ptol. 4.5.27), was a long range of hills east of the Nile, which threw out several abrupt spurs into the Heptanomis of Aegypt. It stood in the parallel of Heracleopolis,i. e. in Lat. 31A1N. From this calcareous range was quarried, according to Strabo, the stone used in the construction of the Pyramids.
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.