Ferresanus Portus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 31, 2019 07:39 PM
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History
A Roman military harbor facility, attested by name in a Latin inscription dating to 144 CE, on the island of Farasan in the Red Sea. The exact location of the facility is not known; the inscription was found in a context of reuse.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/649361735
16.7725, 41.966667
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- Ferresanus Portus (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ferresanus Portus part of (physical/topographic) Devade (islands) (30 BC - AD 300)
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Pleiades
Richard Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Ferresanus Portus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/649361735> [accessed: 25 November 2024]
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