Kalon Oros
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf
Creators: M. Roaf
Contributors:
Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel, Sean Gillies, 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 13, 2025 07:55 PM
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History
The Kalon Oros is mentioned in the Periplus Maris Erythraei and has been identified by modern scholars with the modern Jebel Akhdar in Oman.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29621
23.2371661, 57.26384135
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- الجبل الأخضر (Jebel Akhdar: Arabic, modern)
- Kalon Oros (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Jebel Shams located at Kalon Oros (unspecified date range)
mountain
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 3 G5 Kalon Oros
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Jebel Akhdar OMN
M. Roaf, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Kalon Oros: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29621> [accessed: 17 December 2025]
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