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An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II
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of the University of Southampton, it is thought to have been located on the present-day site of Quseir al-Quadim (old Quseir), eight kilometres north of the modern town of
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Lionel Casson, Ramsay MacMullen (1989). The Periplus Maris Erythraei: Text with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary.
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Dario Nappo (2010). 'On the location of Leuke Kome' Journal of Roman Archaeology Vol. 23, pp. 335-348.
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Only in the 17th century the port started to regain some importance, mainly because of holy travel from
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Ptolemy II Philadelphus selected it for the principal harbour of the trade with India, in preference to
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first comes Egypt's port of Myos Hormos, and beyond it, after a sail of 1800 stades to the right,
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The Myos Hormos may mean the "Harbour of the Mouse", but most probably meant the "Harbour of the
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upon a headland of similar name, around the 3rd century BC. Later, it was renamed to
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Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 6
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Gauthier makes note of a mistake in the same word in Budge's dictionary.
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Articles and photos of Myos Hormos and actual Old Qusair (in Italian)
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in Huntingford ed., "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea" (London, 1980).
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Following excavations carried out recently by David Peacock and
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The Ethnology and History of the Area Covered by the Periplus
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After the 4th century the port was abandoned, because of the
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The port of Myos Hormos was connected to the Nile valley and
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MYOS-HORMOS
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and there was a tedious and difficult navigation down the
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was prefect of Egypt, I accompanied him and ascended the
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The trade route from Rome to India, showing Myos Hormos
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is described in the anonymous 1st century AD handbook
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Myos Hormos is located in Egypt
Al-Qusayr
Red Sea Governorate
Egypt
Upper Egypt
26°9′24″N 34°14′30″E / 26.15667°N 34.24167°E / 26.15667; 34.24167
Ptolemaic dynasty
Ptolemaic Kingdom
Roman Empire
Ancient Greek
Red Sea
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ancient Greek
Lucy Blue
El Qoseir
Mussel
Arsinoe
Red Sea
Heroopolite Gulf
hieroglyphs
Era
Middle Kingdom
hieroglyphs
Era
Ptolemaic dynasty
Berenice
Red Sea
Roman Egypt
India

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