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Pmoun Berri

a Pleiades name resource

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Romanized Name(s):
Pmoun Berri

Name as attested:

Πμουν Βερρι

Language:
Greek (ancient)

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Less certain

Temporal attestations:

References:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Possibly Pmoun Berri, according to an ostrakon (unpublished) found at the site in 2008, which acknowledges the payment of money by someone described as ἀπὸ γεωργ(ίου) Πμουν Βερρι, “from the georgion of Pmoun Berri.” Pmoun Berri [which means “the new spring”] may have been the fourth-century antecedent of the modern toponym “Ain el-Gedida” (although, according to Arabic grammar, the latter is translated literally as “the spring of the new [village].”

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