Sketis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Bernand
Creators: A. Bernand
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 11, 2024 04:47 PM
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History
The modern Wadi el Natrun: a valley in northern Egypt that developed as an important locus of Coptic monastic establishments, beginning in late antiquity and continuing to the present day.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727232
30.4548657061, 30.2215390506
- Associated Modern Locations:
- GeoNames location of Wādī an Naţrūn (modern) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 930 meters.
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- وادي النطرون (Wadi El Natrun: Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Wadi Natroun (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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- Deir Abou Makar located in Sketis (unspecified date range)
- Deir Abou Menas located in Sketis (unspecified date range)
- Deir Amba Baramos located in Sketis (unspecified date range)
- Deir Amba Bishoi located in Sketis (unspecified date range)
- Deir el-Sourian located in Sketis (unspecified date range)
- Nitriai located in Sketis (unspecified date range)
valley, map label location
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 C3 Sketis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Wadi Natroun
A. Bernand, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Sketis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727232> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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