Ptolemaios/Traianos Potamos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Bernand Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A. Bernand Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jul 08, 2025 06:14 PM
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History
The Hellenistic and Roman continuation of work on the so-called "Canal of the Pharaohs". Trajan reworked the canal, shifting its mouth on the Nile River further to the south to what is now Old Cairo (a.k.a. Coptic Cairo).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727212
30.25, 31.25
- Representative Locations:
- Undetermined location (550 BC - AD 640)
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- Ptolemaios (550 BC - AD 640)
- Traianos Potamos (550 BC - AD 640)
- Ptolemaios/Traianos Potamos succeeds Nekou Diorux (unspecified date range)
- Ptolemaios/Traianos Potamos located at Wadi Tumilat (unspecified date range)
- Khalij al-Masri succeeds Ptolemaios/Traianos Potamos (unspecified date range)
canal
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 E4 Ptolemaios/Traianos Potamos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Wadi Tumilat
A. Bernand, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ptolemaios/Traianos Potamos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727212> [accessed: 12 December 2025]
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