Saww
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 11, 2023 05:51 PM
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History
A port on the Red Sea, located at a small dhow harbor now called Mersa Gawasis. The port was used during the 12th Dynasty for expeditions to Punt and Sinai.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/164651500
26.557222, 34.036389
- Central Point:
- GeoHack location of Mersa Gawasis (2010 BC - 1640 BC)
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- مرسة جواسيس (Mersa Gawāsīs: Egyptian Arabic, modern)
- Sꜣww (Saww: Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1640 BC)
- Less than certain: Sw (Ancient Egyptian, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- Less than certain: Sww (Ancient Egyptian, unspecified date range)
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settlement, port
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Saww: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/164651500> [accessed: 03 June 2023]
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