Napata
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N.B. Millet Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N.B. Millet Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 10, 2024 10:17 PM
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History
Napata was a Nubian city-state located on the west bank of the Nile River and founded in the fifteenth century B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/805634
18.565952, 31.853738
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 21392 (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Napata connection Jebel Barkal (unspecified date range)
- Napata capital of Kush (kingdom) (1086 BC - 664 BC)
- Napata connection Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 82 B3 Napata
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Barkal
N.B. Millet, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Napata: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/805634> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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