Persou (Bir Umm Fawakhir)

TM Geo 2837

Egypt - Eastern desert (Eastern desert)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located in Wadi Hammamat (TM Geo 2839), near Wadi Fawakhir (TM Geo 54354), ca. 5 km east of Persou (I) (TM Geo 6520), along the road between U05 Koptos (Qift) (TM Geo 1159) and Myos Hormos (Quseir el-Qadim) (TM Geo 3156)
25.950983,33.568897 (Lat,Long)

Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Pleiades

Status: camp: praesidium; quarry: metallon

Greek name(s): Πέρσου
Latin name(s): Persu
Modern name(s): Bir Umm Fawakhir
Variants: Persou (II) - Bir Umm Fawakhir

Repertoria: Dizionario Suppl. 3, p. 124 (s.v. Persou); Suppl. 4, p. 108 (2)
Biblio: Cuvigny, BIFAO 97 (1997), p. 139-147; Cuvigny (ed.), La route de Myos Hormos, 2003, p. 55; p. 280-285; p. 383; CDD P, 2010, p. 133; Cuvigny, Le désert oriental d'Égypte, 2018, § 17-38; § 105-173; Meyer, Le désert oriental d'Égypte, 2018
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 53 [a] (Bir el-Fawakhir); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 D1 (Persou [east]); BIFAO 95 (1995), p. 209 fig. 1 (Bīr-Fawāḫir); Brun e.a. (ed.), Le désert oriental d'Égypte [Cuvigny], 2018, § 1 fig. 1 inset (Persou); Cuvigny (ed.), La route de Myos Hormos, 2003, p. 663 (B'ir Umm Fawâkhir); Egyptian series 1:50,000, map NG 36 K2a, 1989 (Al-Fawākhīr); Egyptian series 1:50,000, map NG 36 K2a, 1989 (Ābār al-Fawākhīr); LÄ VI, 1986, col. 1101-1102 no. 1 (Bir Fawâḫir); LÄ VI, 1986, col. 1101-1102 no. 2 (Bir Fawâḫir); LÄ VII, 1992, map 4 (Bir el-Fawachir); U.S. Army Map Service, map NG 36-7 (6th ed.), 1959 (Bîr Um Fowakhir)
Note: the original Persou kai Tamostymeos (6520), also abbreviated as Persou, near the Paneion in the Wadi Hammamat seems to have moved in the early Roman period to the Wadi Fawakhir, where the settlement retained the name Persou (II) (2837); in the double name Persou kai Tamostymeos the first element might refer to the bekhen quarries in the Wadi Hammamat, the second one to the mines (for various items) in the Wadi Fawakhir