Iken
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.M. Burstein Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.M. Burstein Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 05, 2023 03:17 PM
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History
An ancient settlement located in Sudan's Northern state. The ancient site was situated at the 2nd cataract in Wadi Halfa and contained one of the largest fortresses in Nubia. The site was inundated by the Aswan High dam hydroelectric project.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/795819
21.716141, 31.188621
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 21360 (330 BC - 30 BC)
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- Iken (330 BC - 30 BC)
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fort, tower (deprecated)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 81 B4 Iken
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Mirgissa SUD
S.M. Burstein, DARMC, R. Talbert, D. Borough, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Iken: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/795819> [accessed: 31 January 2023]
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