You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Kom Wasit

Kom Wasit

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Feb 27, 2020 06:01 AM — History

Archaeological site in the province of Beheira in the Western Delta, inhabited from the Roman through the Early Islamic periods. Along with the nearby site Kom el-Ahmer, it has been identified as a possible location of Metelis, the capital of the Metelite Nome.

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/455482664

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.1748242483, 30.4568103075

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kom Wasit (30 BC - AD 750) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Kom Wasit makes connections with:

Kom Wasit located near Kom el-Ahmer (30 BC - AD 750)

Kom Wasit receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kom Wasit: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/455482664> [accessed: 04 December 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/455482664 |title=Places: 455482664 (Kom Wasit) |author=Mckee, G. |accessdate=December 4, 2024 3:29 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

Personal tools

Kom Wasit