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Xeron Pelagos (Feisaleya)

TM Geo 8665

Egypt - Eastern desert (Eastern desert) - provincia: Aegyptus - located in Wafi Jirf (TM Geo 55427); along the road between U05 Koptos (Qift) (TM Geo 1159) and Berenike (Bender el-Kebir) (TM Geo 416)
24.866976,34.250121 (Lat,Long)


Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Pleiades, Talbert Peutinger


Status: camp: *praesidium; city?: civitas


Greek name(s): Ξηρὸν Πέλαγος
Latin name(s): Xeron - Aristonis
Modern name(s): Feisaleya
Variants: Xeron Pelagos ('Dry sea') - Aristonis (< *Aridum?) - Feisaleya (Feisoli - El-Faysaliyyah)


Repertoria: Dizionario I 2, p. 208
Biblio: Miller, Itineraria Romana, 1916, col. 862; O. Claud. 1, 1992, p. 130; Cuvigny, Le désert oriental d'Égypte, 2018, § 105-173; Cuvigny, O. Blemmyes, 2002, p. 105-176
Map: Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 E4 (Aristonis); Belzoni, Narrative of the operations in Egypt and Nubia, 1820, pl. 38 (Gerf); Bengtson, Weltatlas, 1978(6), pl. 36 a E5 (Aristonis); Brun e.a. (ed.), Le désert oriental d'Égypte [Cuvigny], 2018, § 1 fig. 1 inset (Xèron Pelagos); BSOAS 16 (1954), p. 212 (Aristonis); d'Anville, Aegyptus antiqua, 1765 (Aristonis); Egyptian series 1:50,000, map NG 36 C6c, 1989 (Al-Fayṣaliyyah Village (Ruins)); Floyer, Eastern desert or northern Etbai, 1893 (Feisoli); Jacotin, Carte geographique de l'Égypte, 1818, map 3 (Aristonis); JEA 11 (1925), p. 138 pl. 11 (Aristonis (Gerf)); JEA 39 (1953), p. 95 Vo (Aristonis); Jomard, Carte itinéraire, 1820 (Aristonis); Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1892), p. 812 (Feisoli); Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1892), p. 812 (Aristonis); Pococke, A description of the East, 1743, I, p. 1 (Aristonis); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 9 (Feissali (Aristonis)); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 234 fig. 3.210 (Girf/Xeron/Aristonis (site 52)); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 237 fig. 3.211 (Girf (52)); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 243 fig. 3.217 (Bayzah (site 55)); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 4 (56 / Abu Qraya 2/Feisoli); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. vi (Aristonis); Tabula Imperii Romani. Coptos, 1958 (Aristonis / W. Gerf); U.S. Army Map Service, map NG 36-15 (2nd ed.), 1958 (Aristonis (ruins))


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700843Cuvigny, Rome in Egypt's eastern desert p. 49 [1306] descr.[found & written]pottery Greek AD01 - AD03 Egypt, Eastern desert - Xeron Pelagos (Feisaleya) [found & written]
700847Cuvigny, Rome in Egypt's eastern desert p. 49 [310] descr.[found & written]pottery Greek AD01 - AD03 Egypt, Eastern desert - Xeron Pelagos (Feisaleya) [found & written]
700852Cuvigny, Rome in Egypt's eastern desert p. 51 n. 119 [956] descr.[found & written]pottery Greek AD01 - AD03 Egypt, Eastern desert - Xeron Pelagos (Feisaleya) [found & written]
700853Cuvigny, Rome in Egypt's eastern desert p. 51 n. 120 [488] descr.[found & written]pottery Greek AD01 - AD03 Egypt, Eastern desert - Xeron Pelagos (Feisaleya) [found & written]
764733Cuvigny, Rome in Egypt's eastern desert p. 601[found & written]pottery Greek AD01 - AD02 Egypt, Eastern desert - Xeron Pelagos (Feisaleya) [found & written]
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