Thonis
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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Mar 01, 2023 04:51 PM
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History
The Egyptian site of Thonis, sometimes referred to as Thonis-Heracleion, was located near the Canopic Mouth of the Nile, approximately 32 km northeast of Alexandria. Its ruins are now submerged.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727250
31.314035, 30.078252
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 15151 (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Θῶνις (Thonis: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 C2 Thonis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Abukir
A. Bernand, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, jfu, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Thonis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727250> [accessed: 10 October 2024]
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