Kom Isfaht (, from )is a town in the

Upper Egypt Upper Egypt ( ar, صعيد مصر ', shortened to , , locally: ; ) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the lands on both sides of the Nile that extend upriver from Lower Egypt in the north to Nubia in the south. In ancient ...

ian Asyut Governorate. It is located on the west bank of the

Nile The Nile, , Bohairic , lg, Kiira , Nobiin language, Nobiin: Áman Dawū is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered ...

. It was a Roman village (Apollonopolites Heptakomias). During Muslim conquest, it was called kūra of Qahqawa.

Overview

Kom Isfaht is a locality of assuit , situated 40 minutes distance from Abu Tig, in the district of Abu Tig, in the province of Asyut. It has a population of 3,719 inhabitants, with no dependencies. References elsewhere are to the church of St George in Kom Isfaht and to the fact that its name in

Roman Egypt , conventional_long_name = Roman Egypt , common_name = Egypt , subdivision = Province , nation = the Roman Empire , era = Late antiquity , capital = Alexandria , title_leader = Praefectus Augustalis , image_map = Roman E ...

was Apollinopolis Heptakomia in the nome, or province, of Apollinopolites Parvus. The records of a

Strategos ''Strategos'', plural ''strategoi'', Linguistic Latinisation, Latinized ''strategus'', ( el, στρατηγός, pl. στρατηγοί; Doric Greek: στραταγός, ''stratagos''; meaning "army leader") is used in Greek language, Greek to ...

, or general, whose name was Apollonius, of Heptakomia have been preserved. There are a number of letters to Apollonius from his mother, Eudaimonis, and his wife, Aline, when

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

was away campaigning against the

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

in the great revolt of the Jewish Diaspora in Cyrene,

, and

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...

against the Romans and the local populations in 116 and 117 AD. Eudaimonis was very worried about Apollonius’ safety, but he seems to have returned unharmed because we also have his application for two months’ leave to sort out his affairs, after the end of the revolt, Aline set up an altar to the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, in thanksgiving. There also records of a

monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...

near Kom Isfaht, the monastery of Apa Apollo at Baouit. ''Ref:Dictionnaire Geographique de l’Egypte of 1899 records her Kom Esfaht''

References

Populated places in Asyut Governorate {{egypt-geo-stub