Opposite the ancient Egyptian city of Aswan, which itself is a unique Kartvelian toponym of the ancient world, in the time of Ptolemy there was the city of Photis. The name is deliberately given in Latin, since its correct transliteration into Russian is not an easy matter. We are accustomed to conveying the combination "ph" with the letter "f", which is a relatively late invention and is absent from the fundamental Kartvelian languages, which do not suffer from a lack of consonants. Therefore, it is much more correct to interpret the combination "ph" in ancient names as what it actually is: "p" with an aspiration - [ph]. This sometimes leads to remarkable discoveries, such as, for example, the history of the word "Scythians", given herein.
As for the ancient Egyptian city of "Photis", which, by the way, has not survived to our days, without the purely Greek "s" at the end of the word, the name completely coincides with the Georgian city of Poti (ფოტი, [p(h)oti]), a major city of ancient Colchis, also known as "P(h)asis".
The Kartvelian nature of Aswan itself, as well as a bunch of toponyms up the Nile, reinforce the impression of the correspondence. In addition, on Ptolemy's map, to the west of Photis, the amazing and mysterious "Scythica regio" is indicated. Finally, the Kartvelian nature of the satellite city of Aswan is proven by the adjective "ფოტელი" (photeli) from Chanturia's dictionary, which is translated as "North African".
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