Abyssa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 04, 2023 03:45 PM
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History
A small, fortified town that served as an outpost for the Ḥaḑramawt kingdom from the first to seventh centuries.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39264
17.0389241927, 54.4341534789
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Khor Rori (330 BC - AD 640)
- None
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settlement
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 D2 Abyssa
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Khor Rori? OMN
D.T. Potts, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Abyssa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39264> [accessed: 03 June 2023]
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This site is written up at http://home.kpn.nl/~janm_schreurs/Sumhuram.htm. It interests me because we have an Abisson in Britain, possibly near Portpatrick on the SW coast of Scotland next to the sea trench in the North Channel across to Ireland, where ancient mariners would have been aware that deep sea would prevent safety anchoring if caught off a lee shore. Much the same holds for Khor Rori on the coast of Oman. Therefore I question the assertion in Wikipedia that the name derived from waterfalls upstream from the ancient port. Also Ptolemy mentioned Αβυσσαπολις and I have not find an authority for Abyssa.