Serbonitis (lake)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: B. Isaac Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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A large, saline lake in Egypt on the north coast of the Sinai Peninsula; the "Serbonian Bog" described by Herodotus.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/688025
31.1174361732, 33.0678243542
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Lake Bardawil (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Buḩayrat al Bardawīl, بحيرة البردويل (Buhayrat al Bardawil: Egyptian Arabic, modern)
- Lake Bardawil (English, modern)
- Σιρβωνὶς λίμνη (Sirbonis limne: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
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- Serbonitis Lacus (Serbonitis lacus: Latin, unspecified date range)
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lake, lagoon
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 70 C3 Serbonitis L.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Sabkhat el Bardawil EGY
B. Isaac, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Serbonitis (lake): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/688025> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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