Septem Fratres Montes
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Euzennat Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Euzennat Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 02, 2020 05:45 PM
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History
The northern peaks of Jebel Musa, a mountain on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar that is usually identified as the southern Pillar of Hercules. They share toponomy with, and lie to the west of, the ancient settlement of Septem (modern Ceuta).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275704
35.8989516, -5.4129554
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Jebel Musa (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Septem Fratres (Septem Fratres M.: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Septem Fratres Montes located near Herakleios Porthmos/Gaditanum Fretum (unspecified date range)
- Septem Fratres Montes located near Septem (unspecified date range)
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mountain
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 28 D2 Septem Fratres M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Jebel Musa
M. Euzennat, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Septem Fratres Montes: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275704> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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