Zygris (Marsa Baqqush)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Wikipedia contributors, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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History
An ancient anchorage on the Mediterranean coast of modern Egypt mentioned by Ptolemy (Zygis limen) and in the Stadiasmus Maris Magni. This Zygris (not to be confused with another also mentioned by Ptolemy) has been identified since the early 20th century with a small, reef-walled bay whose name, Marsa Baqqush, has since come to denote the larger bay of which the Zygris anchorage is a part. Multiple ancient wrecks have been identified within and just outside this anchorage, and an extensive system of interconnected rock-cut cisterns, elliptically mentioned in the Stadiasmus, has been identified ashore.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/716656
31.179258, 27.668336
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Imagery Location of Marsa Baqqush (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ζυγὶς λιμήν (Zyg(r)is limen: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ζυγρίς (Zygris: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
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- مرسى بقوش (Marsa Baqqush: Arabic, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
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settlement, station (road or coastal), bay
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 73 D2 Zygris
The BAtlDir entries for the two "Zygris" labels on Map 73 have exchanged gridsquare numbers. The "Zygris" labeled in 72 E2 with a hollow "station" (diamond) symbol corrresponds to the directory entry given the grid square D2 and noting "Marsa Baqqush" as the Modern Name / Location.
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Wikipedia contributors, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Zygris (Marsa Baqqush): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/716656> [accessed: 05 December 2025]
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