Anthylla

Anthylla, also called Andylla, was 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 to provide her shoes, an arrangement he says continued under Persian rule. He also mentions that it lay close to the town of Archander, also known as Archandroupolis. According to Athenaeus, Anthylla supplied the queen of Egypt with her furnishings and was renowned for producing some of the best wine in the Egyptian vineyards. It is sometimes thought to be the ancient city of Gynaecopolis. The sources summarised here are ancient authors, and the article gives no modern site or coordinates, so none are recorded; the entry states what the ancient writers said about the town and the identification that is sometimes proposed.