Scytala (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.E. Sidebotham Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.E. Sidebotham Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 12, 2024 02:17 PM
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History
An island in the Red Sea, mentioned by Pliny, that cannot be precisely identified today; however, some modern scholars have conjectured its association with Shadwan island.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/767858
27.4972305027, 33.9817693038
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Uncertain: OSM location of Geziret Shadwan (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Scytala (unspecified date range)
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- Uncertain: جزيرة شدوان (Geziret Shadwan: Arabic, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
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island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 78 Scytala Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Geziret Shadwan?
S.E. Sidebotham, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Scytala (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/767858> [accessed: 16 February 2025]
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