Dumatha
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf
Creators: M. Roaf
Contributors:
R. Talbert, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Brian Z. Lund, Anne User, Sean Gillies, Mary E. Downs
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 27, 2025 06:01 PM
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History
A road station, possibly located at or en route to modern al-Ǧauf in Saudi Arabia, that epigraphic evidence from another location indicates was garrisoned by Roman soldiers during the Severan period.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29548
29.803206, 39.882216
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19109 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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station (road or coastal)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 3 C4 Dumatha
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: SAU
M. Roaf, R. Talbert, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Brian Z. Lund, Anne User, Sean Gillies, and Mary E. Downs, 'Dumatha: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29548> [accessed: 06 February 2026]
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