Mortuum Mare/Asphaltitis L.
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.T. Parker Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.T. Parker Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 11, 2017 08:02 PM
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History
The modern "Dead Sea", which is bordered by Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697709
31.5778503495, 35.5239431131
- Representative Locations:
- location of Mortuum Mare/Asphaltitis L. (modern)
- Bounding box for the Dead Sea (modern)
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- Asphaltitis L. (unspecified date range)
- ἀσφαλτῖτις λίμνη (Asphaltitis Limne: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Dead Sea (English, modern)
- Mortuum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Salt Sea (English, modern)
- None
- Iordanes (river) flows into Mortuum Mare/Asphaltitis L. (unspecified date range)
- Masada located near Mortuum Mare/Asphaltitis L. (unspecified date range)
- Moab (kingdom) abuts Mortuum Mare/Asphaltitis L. (1000 BC - 540 BC)
lake
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 A2 Mortuum Mare/Asphaltitis L.
Dead Sea
S.T. Parker, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Francis Deblauwe, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Mortuum Mare/Asphaltitis L.: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697709> [accessed: 01 December 2022]
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