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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERENICE , an See also:

ancient seaport of See also:Egypt, on the See also:west See also:coast of the Red See also:Sea, in 23° 56' N., 35° 34' E. Built at the See also:head of a gulf, the Sinus Immundus, or Foul See also:Bay, of See also:Strabo, it was sheltered on the See also:north by See also:Ras Benas (Lepte Extrema). The See also:port is now nearly filled up, has a See also:sand-See also:bar at its entrance and can be reached only by small See also:craft. Most important of the ruins is a See also:temple; the remnants of its sculptures and See also:inscriptions preserve the name of Tiberius and the figures of many deities, including a goddess 1 Alabarch or Arabarch (Gr. ItXat3&Pxrs, or 1cpai3(pxos), the name of the head See also:magistrate of the See also:Jews in See also:Alexandria under the Ptolemaic and See also:Roman rules. i of the See also:emerald mines. Berenice was founded by See also:Ptolemy II. (285-247 B.c.) in See also:order to shorten the dangerous Red Sea voyages, and was named in See also:honour of his See also:mother. For four or five centuries it became the entrep6t of See also:trade between See also:India, See also:Arabia and Upper Egypt. From it a road, provided with watering stations, leads north-west across the See also:desert to the See also:Nile at See also:Coptos. In the neighbourhood of Berenice are the emerald mines of Zabara and Saket.

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