Naukratis

Abstract

Abstract Naukratis, the Greekpolis, trading post (Emporion), and Egyptian town, was the earliest Greek settlement in Egypt. Occupied from the seventh centuryBCEto the Middle Ages, it was the main trading port in the western Nile Delta until the Hellenistic period and a major point of Greek–Egyptian intersection. Situated on the eastern bank of the Canopic branch of the Nile between Alexandria and Memphis, it belonged to the district of the Saite capital Sais, some 20 km to its east. The Greek toponym Naukratis, first attested epigraphically in the first half of the sixth centuryBCE, may be a transcript of one of the town's Egyptian names,Nokradj, documented since 554BCEand possibly of Libyan origin.

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