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Nekou Diorux

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Bernand
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified Nov 27, 2025 09:07 AM — History
Nekou Diorux, an ancient canal in the Wadi Tumilat of Egypt that connected the Pelusiac branch of the Nile River with the Red Sea. Ancient authors, including Aristotle, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder, describe a person-made canal in the Nile River valley that has come to be known colloquially as the "Canal of the Pharaohs". According to Pliny, this project began under the 12th Dynasty pharaoh Senusret III (1878–1839 BC). Work on the canal continued under Darius I of Persia, and then yet again under the Ptolemies. Darius I famously erected a series of inscribed monuments marking and commemorating the canal. Pliny continues to state that following this last phase, the canal extended as far as Fontes Amari and was "100 feet wide, 30 deep, and 37 miles long".

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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 G3 Nekou Diorux

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Wadi Tumilat. The compilers of the Barrington Atlas have not provided much clarity on their choice of toponymy concerning this place and its close, cognate relations. Wadi Tumilat is to be taken as a salt basin and a former distributary of the Nile River.  Nekou Diorux can be understood to be the Pharaonic through early Roman canal that is subsequently superseded by the Ptolemaios/Traianos Potamos, in turn superseded by the Arabic canal known as In terms of the ancient literary sources, Redmount 1995 provided an invaluable summary of the textual claims. The Trismegistos data set has conflated Nekou Diorux and Ptolemaios/Traianos Potamos as a single place.


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A. Bernand, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Nekou Diorux: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/728577> [accessed: 06 February 2026] 

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