Akila/Okelis
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
Oct 12, 2022 05:50 PM
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History
A coastal station or anchorage and associated settlement that scholars identify with the modern Khawr/Khor Ghurayrah on Yemen's Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd headland in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. This small bay is almost closed by sand and coral reefs today. The precise location of the ancient settlement is not known.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39279
12.7137760337, 43.4791157187
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Geonames location of Khawr Ghurayrah (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- OSM Location of modern Ghurayrah (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- OSM Location of Khawr Ghurayrah (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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settlement, station (road or coastal), settlement-modern, bay
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 B3 Akila/Okelis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Khor Ghurayrah (Shaykh Sa'id)? YEM
D.T. Potts, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Akila/Okelis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39279> [accessed: 05 June 2023]
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