Aynuna
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.F. Graf Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 11, 2023 05:14 PM
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History
In modern Saudi Arabia, about 3km inland from the modern fishing port of al‑Khuraybah on the Gulf of Aqaba, a pair of ancient Nabatean sites occupy high ground to the northwest of the Wadi Aynuna. Settled since at least the Hellenistic period, Aynuna probably served as a Red Sea port for Petra. Most scholars agree that these sites are to be identified collectively with Leuke Kome, mentioned in Strabo and the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea; however, some other locations have been posited (see Gawlikowski 2022, note 5).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/814698
28.0880358319, 35.1844118097
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of fortified settlement at Aynuna (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of emporion at Aynuna (100 BC - AD 599) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- عينونة (Aynuna: Arabic, modern)
- Less than certain: λευκή κώμη (Leuke Kome: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Onne (330 BC - AD 300)
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- Wadi Aynuna (Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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settlement (fortified), settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 83 A3 Leuke Kome?/Onne?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: 'Aynuna SAU
D.F. Graf, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aynuna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/814698> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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