Editing Buto (section)

=== Ptolemaic period ===
During the [[Ptolemaic Kingdom]], a Greek-speaking dynasty that ruled from 305 to 30 BCE, the Greeks coined the toponym ''Buto'' for the city. It served as the capital, or according to Herodian, merely the principal village of the Delta. Herodotus styled it the [[Nome (Egypt)#Upper Egypt|Chemmite nome]],<ref name="her"/> [[Ptolemy]] knew it as the Phthenothite [[Nome (Egypt)|nome]] ({{lang|grc|Φθενότης}}),<ref>[[Ptolemy]], iv. 5. § 48.</ref> and [[Pliny the Elder]] as Ptenetha.<ref>[[Pliny the Elder]] v. 9. s. 11.</ref>

Greek historians recorded that Buto was celebrated for its monolithic temple and the oracle of the [[ancient Egyptian deities|goddess]] Wadjet (Buto),<ref>Herodotus ii. 155</ref><ref>Aelian. ''V. Hist.'' ii. 41</ref> and a yearly festival was held there in honour of the goddess. While writing about Egyptian culture, the classical Greeks attempted to associate the more ancient Egyptian deities with their own, a process called the [[interpretatio graeca]]. They wrote about them as essentially the same deities but with different names in Greek culture. For Wadjet, the parallel identification was made with [[Leto]] or [[Latona]]. They also noted that at Buto, there was a sanctuary of [[Horus]], whom the Greeks associated with [[Apollo]], and a sanctuary of [[Bastet]], who the Greeks associated with [[Artemis]].<ref>[[Champollion]], ''l'Egypte'', vol. ii. p.&nbsp;227.</ref>

Writing during that Graeco-Roman period, [[Plutarch]] reported that Isis had entrusted the baby Horus to "Leto" (Wadjet) to raise at Buto while Isis searched for the body of her murdered husband [[Osiris]].<ref>[[Plutarch]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Isis_and_Osiris*/home.html ''de Iside et Osiride''] 18, 38, in the ''[[Moralia]]'' V:26.</ref> According to these same late sources, the [[shrew]] (sometimes associated with Horus) was worshiped at Buto as well.<ref>Herod. ii. 67.</ref>