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Mega Stoma

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Feb 24, 2025 10:33 PM History
Ptolemy enumerates the ancient mouths (stomata) of the Ganges river, from west to east. He lists "Mega Stoma" as the second of these. Due to significant natural and constructed changes in the hydrology of the Ganges within and since antiquity, modern scholars cannot securely identify a particular channel in the Ganges delta today, but the Barrington Atlas does connect the ancient Oxymatis (modern Ichamati) river with the Mega stoma.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59925

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river mouth

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 F5 Mega Stoma

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: mouth of Oxymatis channel in Ganges delta


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M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Mega Stoma: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59925> [accessed: 21 June 2025]

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