Deir Abou Menas
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Bernand
Creators: A. Bernand
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Adam Prins, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Iris Fernandez, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Herbert Verreth, Sean Gillies, Mark Depauw
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 30, 2023 02:40 PM
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History
An ancient Christian pilgrimage site that grew into an active town centered around the monastery complex devoted to Saint Menas who is said to have been buried there. The town reached its peak as the most visited pilgrimage site in Egypt during the sixth century AD.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727105
30.8416054715, 29.6670462965
- Central Point:
- Imagery Location: Center of Visible Remains at Deir Abou Menas (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Abu Mena (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- دير أبو مينا (Deir Abou Menas: Arabic, modern)
- Deir Abou Menas connection Mareia?/Philoxenite (unspecified date range)
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church, monastery (deprecated), sanctuary (religious center), settlement, archaeological site, bath, spa
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 B3 Deir Abou Menas
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Deir Abou Menas, Wadi Natrun
A. Bernand, R. Talbert, Adam Prins, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Iris Fernandez, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Herbert Verreth, Sean Gillies, and Mark Depauw, 'Deir Abou Menas: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727105> [accessed: 23 April 2024]
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