Coptos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 27, 2018 09:27 PM
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History
An ancient settlement on the Nile river (modern Quft/Qift in Egypt) that flourished from pre-dynastic times through late antiquity.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786010
25.996402, 32.815787
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640)
- Coptos (750 BC - AD 640)
- Coptos on Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)
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None
settlement, port
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 80 B1 Coptos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Qift
T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Coptos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786010> [accessed: 20 January 2020]
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