Prason
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).
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May 23, 2022 04:12 PM
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History
A headland located south of Meroë in a region referred to as Barbarica, possibly to be identified with the area opposite the island Mafia (Arabic: Manfiya) or Cape Delgado.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/40256
-10.4815672, 40.4520746
- Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: OSM location of Cape Delgado (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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- Prason (30 BC - AD 300)
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unlocated, cape, promontory
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 Prason
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ras Dima opposite the island Mafia (Arabic: Manfiya) or Cape Delgado TAN
D.T. Potts, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Prason: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/40256> [accessed: 02 February 2023]
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