Castra Mefaa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.T. Parker
Creators: S.T. Parker
Contributors:
DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Iris Fernandez, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 04, 2022 01:21 PM
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History
A site that originated as a Roman castrum and developed into a town from the fifth century onward. Archaeological remains date from the Roman, Byzantine, and Early Muslim periods.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697646
31.5001262642, 35.9202588598
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Umm ar Rasas (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Castra Mefaa (30 BC - AD 640)
- Kastrom Mefa'a (English, unspecified date range)
- أم الرّصاص (Umm ar-Rasas: Arabic, modern)
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fort, tower (deprecated)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 B3 Castra Mefaa
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Umm er-Resas
Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004.
S.T. Parker, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Iris Fernandez, and Tom Elliott, 'Castra Mefaa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697646> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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