Selenes (mountain)
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
Mar 30, 2026 12:07 PM
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History
A quasi-mythical mountain or range of mountains in equatorial Africa said to be the source of the Nile River. Some traditions associate the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda as the location of this ancient place.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/40304
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (30 BC - AD 300)
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- جبل قمر (Cebel-i Ḳumr: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- جبل القمر, (Jabal al-Qamar: Arabic, AD 1800 - AD 1899)
- Montes Lunae (Latin, unspecified date range)
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- Selenes M. (Selenes: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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unlocated, mountain
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 Selenes M.
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D.T. Potts, R. Talbert, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Selenes (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/40304> [accessed: 08 June 2026]
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