Mega Stoma
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy 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
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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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59925
- Oxymatis (river) flows into Mega Stoma (unspecified date range)
river mouth
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 F5 Mega Stoma
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: mouth of Oxymatis channel in Ganges delta
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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