Anthylla

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Anthylla (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθυλλα) or Andylla (Ancient Greek: Ἀντυλλα) is an ancient city of Lower Egypt, on the Canopus branch of the Nile River.

Herodotus describes it as a town of some reputation and states that its revenues were assigned to the Egyptian queen for the provision of her shoes, an arrangement that, he notes, continued under Persian rule.¹ Herodotus also mentions that it was close to the "town of Archander" (Ἀρχάνδρου πόλις),¹ also known as "Archandroupolis" (Ἀρχανδρούπολις).²

According to Athenaeus, Anthylla provided the queen of Egypt with her furnishings and was renowned for producing some of the best wine in Egyptian vineyards.³

It is sometimes thought to be the ancient city of Gynaecopolis.³