*Sioua
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).
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Jan 06, 2025 05:44 PM
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History
"Sioua" is the Greek reconstruction of an ancient toponym (found in Egyptian sources: S·t-wȝḥ) that encompassed some part of the western end of the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt (certainly the site now known as Deir al-Haggar was included, and possibly also Amheida).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776223
25.6648036872, 28.8133148645
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: visible remains of the temple at Deir el-Hagar (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Deir el-Hagar (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Deir el-Hagar (Arabic, modern)
- Sioua (30 BC - AD 640)
- *Sioua part of (regional) Esotero (Oasis) (unspecified date range)
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region, settlement, temple
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 79 inset *Sioua
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Deir el-Hagar
G. Wagner, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Roko Rumora, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, '*Sioua: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776223> [accessed: 21 January 2025]
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