84:(fl. 14th century) the following phrase: "ἔν τινι νήσῳ, ἣ Ταβέννη ώνόμαστο", "in a certain island called Tabenne". Hence comes the tradition according to which the monastery was installed on an island, which in fact does not appear in any ancient document. In Coptic manuscripts, the forms are as follows: Tabennêsi (the most frequent), Tabênise, Tabnêse, Tabsinêse, Tabsênisi and others. In the Arabic texts: Tabanessin, Tafnis, Tafânis, Tafnasa, and also Dounasa are found. In Latin, the form Tabennen is found in the Latin
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232:, X, 1888, pp. 139 and 141) to identify this name with a toponym which appears in the geographical list of Abydos (in hieroglyphic), and which means "Abode of the son of Isis"; but this toponym has also been attributed by others to Nag Hammadi (the Χηνοβοσκία of the Greek geographers), which is about twenty kilometers downstream from the site of Tabennesis, on the same right bank of the river.
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Tabennese taxation from the
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92:. As for the derivative designating the occupants of the place, in Greek it takes the forms Ταβεννησιώτης, Ταβινισιώτης, Ταβισιώτης; in Latin Tabennensis (with the usual suffix -ensis), Tabennesiota (tracing from Greek), Tabennensiota (mixture of the two).
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