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.
Akila/Okelis
Akila
Ocilia
Okelis
43.4847199048
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.
Robin 1995 225
DARMC 19593
Akila/Okelis
Khor Ghurayrah (Shaykh Sa'id)? YEM
dare:feature=station
dare:ancient=1
dare:major=0
12.7087525155
2022-10-12T17:50:57-04:00
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 B3 Akila/Okelis
bay
Location based on OpenStreetMap
2099
OSM Location of modern Ghurayrah
OSM Node 1216821524
OpenStreetMap (Node 1216821524, version 8, osm:changeset=78983906, 2019-12-29T16:49:47Z)
2022-10-12T17:50:08-04:00
twenty-first century of the common era
2000
Location based on OpenStreetMap
2099
OSM Location of Khawr Ghurayrah
OSM Relation 12722107
OpenStreetMap (Relation 12722107, version 1, osm:changeset=104820999, 2021-05-17T11:17:56Z)
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2022-10-12T17:50:07-04:00
2000
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)
640
Akila
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 B3 Akila/Okelis
2022-10-12T17:49:35-04:00
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)
-30
Akila
640
Okelis
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 B3 Akila/Okelis
2022-10-12T17:49:35-04:00
-30
Okelis
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
2099
Geonames location of Khawr Ghurayrah
GeoNames 75579: Khawr Ghurayrah
Pleiades
2022-10-12T17:50:07-04:00
2000
640
Ocilia
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 B3 Akila/Okelis
2022-10-12T17:49:35-04:00
-30
Ocilia
station (road or coastal)