Kawa
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 10:05 PM
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History
Known today as Kawa, ruins of this ancient Egyptian and Kushite settlement are located on the east bank of the Nile river, seven kilometers south of the modern Nile bridge at Dongola in Sudan.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/805647
19.123131, 30.496606
- Central Point:
- Imagery Location of Kawa (1548 BC - AD 299) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Gematon (Ancient; writing system unspecified Egyptian, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- Παταιτα (Pataita: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Πατέτα (Pateta: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Patigga (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Patinga(n|s) (Patinga: Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- None
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None
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 82 A2 Patinga?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kawa
N.B. Millet, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kawa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/805647> [accessed: 17 June 2026]
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