Terenuthis

Terenuthis or Kom Abu Billou

Terenuthis, or Kom Abu Billo, was a town in Ancient Egypt. Placed roughly on the spot of the modern town of Tarrana, approximately 70 km north of Cairo in the western delta, it was described after the ancient Egyptian goddess Renenutet. Renenutet is one of the near ancient gods in the Egyptian pantheon, and in later worship was unified with other Egyptian gods alike Wadjet. Renenutet was perchance a local protecting deity in predynastic times, as Terenuthis is the oldest noted center of her cult.

Tarrana in the Province of Beherah replaces Terenuthis, now noted as Kom Abu Billo, the ruins of which lie about a mile and a quarter to the west. About nine miles outside are Lake Nitria and Lake Scetis, good which were the lavras of these names, Nitria and Scetis.

A tomb from Terenuthis

After Egypt became a Roman willpower, Terenuthis was unified into the Roman province of Aegyptus Prima. There are archaeological rests dating leastwise from the Middle Kingdom, as well as a necropolis. From the Ptolemaic period dates a (now generally destroyed) temple sacred to Hathor-Thermutis, which was earlier established by Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II.

Terenuthis got a bishopric that, being in the state of Aegyptus Prima was a suffragan of Alexandria and is taken in the Catholic Church's list of conventional sees. Le Quien notes two of its bishops: Arsinthius in 404; Eulogius at the First Council of Ephesus in 431. The monks sometimes sought refuge in Terenuthis in penetrations of the Maziks. John Moschus went there at the beginning of the 7th century. There is popular mention of Terenuthis in Christian Coptic literature.

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