Hieracon
Hieracon or Hierakon, also called Theracon, Egyptian pr nmty, was an ancient fortified city of Upper Egypt situated on the right bank of the Nile, now the site of the modern-day village of al-ʿAtawlah, Egypt. Here, in Roman times, was quartered the cohors prima of the Lusitanian auxiliaries. It stood nearly midway between the western extremity of the Ἀλαβαστρινὸν ὄρος or Alabstrine Mountains and the city of Asyut, latitude 27° 15′North.
Hieracon is distinct from Nekhen, which was south of Thebes, lat. 25° 52′North, nearly opposite Eileithyias polis, and capital of the third nome of Upper Egypt.
