Τάνις - Stephanos Ethnika

Τάνις OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Τάνις, πόλις μεγάλη Αἰγύπτου. ὁ πολίτης Τανίτης .... τὸ ἐθνικὸν τὸ αὐτό.

Tanis: a large city in Egypt. A citizen is a 'Tanites'.... The ethnonym is the same.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Entry	#19
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 601.15
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-22
Word count	11
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Entity	Details
Τάνις	Tanis · place
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place
Τανίτης	Tanite · people
Τάνις	place · explicit · wikidata: Q210598 · seeded_headword_alignment

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Tanis, a large city of Egypt. Its citizen is called a Tanite; the ethnic name is the same. No origin or derivation of the place-name is explained in the surviving text.

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.