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the Mu’jam al-Buldan (glossary of countries): "Qulta is a good village, known as Saqiya Qalta in Upper Egypt, east of the Nile, near Akhmim."
the works of Al-Suyuti, quoting the Akhmimiya, though he distorts the name by integrating it with Al-Sadr, so it became "Saqlath", as mentioned in old calendar books from 1231 AH.
the 1877 tables of the Ministry of Finance mention it as “Saqlath and the Arabs”.[3]