el-Deir
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Wagner Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Wagner Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 23, 2024 09:36 PM
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History
el-Deir (also known as Deir el-Munīra) is the site of a Roman fort and necropolis in Egypt's Kharga Oasis.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776167
25.5967488622, 30.7304634591
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Deir el-Munīra (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- دير المنيرة (Deir el-Munīra: Arabic, modern)
- الدير (ed-Deir: Arabic, modern)
- el-Deir part of (regional) Oasis Magna/Thebaidos (unspecified date range)
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fort, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 79 D2 el-Deir
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: el-Deir
G. Wagner, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'el-Deir: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776167> [accessed: 26 December 2024]
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