You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Plinthine

Plinthine

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Bernand

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jul 12, 2023 11:04 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=0, dare:feature=church

An ancient settlement at modern Kom el-Nagous in Egypt. Archaeological evidence shows habitation on the site stretches back to at least the Ramesside period. A large Ptolemaic temple seems to have been dismantled and built over during the Roman period.

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727205

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
30.9560804, 29.5404993

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Kom el-Nagous (1086 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Πλινθίνη (Plinthine: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Plinthine (330 BC - AD 640)
Associated Modern Names:
- Kom el-Nagous (Arabic, AD 1900 - AD 2099)

Plinthine makes connections with:

None

Plinthine receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, archaeological site

References:

See Further:

Related:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 B2 Plinthine

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kom el-Nagous?

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
A. Bernand, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Plinthine: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727205> [accessed: 23 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727205 |title=Places: 727205 (Plinthine) |author=Bernand, A. |accessdate=April 23, 2024 4:26 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

Personal tools

Plinthine