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Bounding box of Aswan quarry landscape

a Pleiades location resource

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Feature type:
unknown

Geometry and coordinates (long, lat order):
{ "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [ 32.840000000000003, 24.02 ], [ 32.939999999999998, 24.02 ], [ 32.939999999999998, 24.16 ], [ 32.840000000000003, 24.16 ], [ 32.840000000000003, 24.02 ] ] ] }

Archaeological remains:
Unknown

Association certainty:
Certain

Positional Accuracy Assessment:
Generic Map Scale 1:400,000

Location type:
representative

Temporal attestations:

New Kingdom Egypt (1548-1086) (confident)
Third Intermediate Period Egypt (1086-664) (confident)
Late Period Egypt (664-332) (confident)
Macedonian Egypt (332-304 BCE/BC) (confident)
Ptolemaic Egypt (304-30 BCE/BC) (confident)
Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)
Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640) (confident)

References:

Citation:

Per Toremyr, "Aswan Quarry Landscape," QuarryScapes: Conservation of Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes in Eastern Mediterranean, 2005-2008

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Coordinates for this bounding box were generated by visual comparison in Google Earth against the 2006 Quarryscapes map at 1:50,000 published online by Toremyr.

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Bounding box of Aswan quarry landscape