Pi-Ramesses
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 20, 2023 03:39 PM
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History
Capital city built by New Kingdom pharaoh Ramesses II at the modern Egyptian village of Qantir. The site is near the old capital, Avaris.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/905314398
30.80076195, 31.8347738
- Associated Modern Locations:
- CIGS location of Qantīr (unspecified date range)
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Pi-Ramesses (1548 BC - 1086 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- قنتير (Qantīr: Arabic, modern)
- Pi-Ramesses located near Avaris/Ramesses (1548 BC - 1086 BC)
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settlement, settlement-modern
Pleiades
Zachary Rosalinsky, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Pi-Ramesses: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/905314398> [accessed: 20 November 2024]
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