A small, fortified town that served as an outpost for the Ḥaḑramawt kingdom from the first to seventh centuries. The archaeological site and its surrounding landscape are known by the modern name Khor Rori, and the town is tentatively identified as Ptolemy's Abyssapolis, and the port of Moscha Limen of the Periplus Maris Erythraei.
Sumhuram
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Sumhuram
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 D2 Abyssa
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خور روري
Abyssa
Abissagi
سمهرم
Avanzini 2008
Groom 1995 185
DARMC 19716
WHL Land of Frankincense
BAtlas 4 D2 Abyssa
Wikipedia (English) Khor Rori
A small, fortified town that served as an outpost for the Ḥaḑramawt kingdom from the first to seventh centuries. The archaeological site and its surrounding landscape are known by the modern name Khor Rori, and the town is tentatively identified as Ptolemy's Abyssapolis, and the port of Moscha Limen of the Periplus Maris Erythraei.
Khor Rori? OMN
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The Hellenistic period in Greek history and the middle-to-late Republican period in Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 330 and end in the year 30 before the birth of Christ. [[-330, -30]]
Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC)
twenty-first century of the common era
twentieth century of the common era
300
-30
Abissagi
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The Roman period (i.e., the early Roman Empire) in Greek and Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 30 before the birth of Christ and to end in the year 300 after the birth of Christ. [[-30, 300]]
Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300)
Abissagi
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Equivalent to "inhabited place" as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: General term for places or areas occupied, modified, or planned to be inhabited by communities of human populations and that contain enough societal functions to be relatively self-sufficient. They are characterized by inhabitants living in neighboring sets of living quarters and by the place having a proper name or a locally recognized status.
settlement
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Khor Rori
Pleiades
Khor Rori
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خور روري
Wikidata Khor Rori
Modern Arabic name of the site.
The Late Antique period in Greek and Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 300 and to end in the year 640 after the birth of Christ. [[300, 640]]
Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640)
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OSM location of Khor Rori
OpenStreetMap (Way 335581726, version 7, osm:changeset=126845633, 2022-10-01T02:50:11Z)
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OSM Way 335581726
Representative location based on OpenStreetMap.
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1900
Sumhuram
Pleiades
Sumhuram
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سمهرم
Wikidata Khor Rori
Modern Arabicization of the ancient Hadramitic name.
300
-30
Abyssa
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 D2 Abyssa
Abyssa
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