Sikait
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 29, 2022 05:14 PM
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History
Ancient Senskis, a large settlement in Egypt's Eastern desert on a branch tributary of Wadi Gemal (Wadi Sikait) with archaeological remains dating between the first and sixth centuries CE. The settlement was associated with the mining of emerald (i.e., green beryl) and is one of several in the region.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786114
24.6319450731, 34.7953601371
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of visible ruins (30 BC - AD 499) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Sikait located near Berenicidis M./Smaragdos Oros (30 BC - AD 300)
- Sikait located near Gebel Zabara (30 BC - AD 300)
- Sikait located near Sikait Middle (30 BC - AD 300)
- Sikait located near Sikait North (30 BC - AD 300)
- Sikait located near Umm Kabu (30 BC - AD 300)
- Large Temple at Sikait located at Sikait (unspecified date range)
- Six Windows Building Complex at Sikait located at Sikait (unspecified date range)
- Temple or Large Administrative Building at Sikait located at Sikait (unspecified date range)
settlement, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 80 F4 Sikait
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Sikait
T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Noah Kaye, and Tom Elliott, 'Sikait: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786114> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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