Murannimal (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 01, 2023 04:57 PM
—
History
The Murannimal was a river of Arabia. Pliny the Elder speaks of it flowing from the interior of Arabia to the Persian Gulf. Potts discusses the likelihood of this now-extinct river system based on author post-ancient authors and traces in the landscape.
Show place in Google Earth.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933951
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (30 BC - AD 300)
-
- Murannimal (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- None
-
None
unlocated, river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 95 Murannimal fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: R. Hofuf? SAU
D.T. Potts, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Murannimal (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933951> [accessed: 27 April 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933951 |title=Places: 933951 (Murannimal (river)) |author=Potts, D. |accessdate=April 27, 2025 4:46 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}