Myrmix/Pedonia (islands)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, Sean Gillies, Perry Scalfano, Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 29, 2025 02:22 PM
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History
Ancient sources refer to the Myrmix or Pedonia island(s), which seem to correspond to the modern Abu Samra reef off the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, west of the Nile delta.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/716603
31.1085537709, 28.2886490588
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Abu Samra Reef (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- BAtlas Map Label Location (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 1860 meters.
- Imagery location of Abu Samra reef (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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island, reef, map label location
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 73 F2 Myrmix/Pedonia Inss.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Samra reef
D.J. Mattingly, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, Sean Gillies, Perry Scalfano, and Ryan Horne, 'Myrmix/Pedonia (islands): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/716603> [accessed: 18 April 2025]
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