Ptolemais Theron
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 05, 2022 11:43 AM
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History
Ptolemais Theron was an ancient marketplace on the western coast of the Red Sea. Its precise location on the Sudanese Red Sea coast is now unknown, but many scholars view modern Aqiq (Hillat `Agig) as the most likely alternative.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39409
18.5826004, 37.8854432
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM Location of Modern Hillat `Agig (AD 1900 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Uncertain: Geonames location of modern Marsá Maqdam anchorage (AD 1900 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
- Uncertain: OSM Locations of modern Trinkitat (AD 1900 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Uncertain: Geonames location of modern Gazirat ‘Iri (AD 1900 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
- Uncertain: OSM Location of Modern Sawakin (AD 1900 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Πτολεμαΐς Θηρῶν (Ptolemais Theron: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ptolemais Theron abuts Arabicus Sinus/Erythr(ae)um/Rubrum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Ptolemais Theron located near Sabastrikon Stoma/Sebastikon Stoma (30 BC - AD 300)
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anchorage, settlement, port, settlement-modern, island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 A2 Ptolemais Theron
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: on the coast between 18-19 degrees N lat. SUD. Casson pages 100-101 helpfully summarizes the various modern locations posited by earlier scholars.
D.T. Potts, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ptolemais Theron: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39409> [accessed: 26 December 2024]
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