Leuke Akte
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 31, 2018 02:13 PM
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History
Leuke Akte, the ‘White cape’ located on the Libyan coast of Egypt, was the site of an Isis cult wherein the Egyptian goddess was worshipped as Aphrodite, Muchis, and Eseremphis. An oracular shrine of Apollo was also found there.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/716587
31.230934, 27.857983
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 15700 (550 BC - AD 300)
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- Leuke Akte (550 BC - AD 300)
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sanctuary (religious center)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 73 E2 Leuke Akte
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ras el-Abiad
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Leuke Akte: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/716587> [accessed: 31 May 2023]
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