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Monday, June 25, 2012

Il Canopo, Villa Adriana, Tivoli

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Adriano would know this: the old Egyptian name for "Canopus" was Pikuat.

The Greeks called it Kanobos, or Kanopos (Greek: Κάνωπος), after a mythological commander of a Greek fleet supposedly buried there.

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