Kom el-Ahmer
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 27, 2020 06:01 AM
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History
Archaeological site in the province of Beheira in the Western Delta, inhabited from the Roman through the Early Islamic periods. Along with the nearby site Kom Wasit, it has been identified as a possible location of Metelis, the capital of the Metelite Nome.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177924141
31.1616351701, 30.4486398285
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kom el-Ahmer (30 BC - AD 750) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Kom Wasit located near Kom el-Ahmer (30 BC - AD 750)
settlement
- See Further:
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, 'Kom el-Ahmer: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177924141> [accessed: 06 April 2025]
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