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
—
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.
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
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.
-
- وادي النطرون (Wadi El Natrun: Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Wadi Natroun (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- None
- 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: 20 April 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727232 |title=Places: 727232 (Sketis) |author=Bernand, A. |accessdate=April 20, 2025 8:53 am |publisher=Pleiades}}