Kanobikon Stoma
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Bernand Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A. Bernand Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The western-most ancient mouth of the Nile river, located just east of the city of Canopus. It was fed by the Canopic (Kanobikos) branch of the Nile and emptied into the Canopic Gulf (Kanopikos Kolpos).
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/727137
16.1010829332, 31.4591482445
- Representative Locations:
- Undetermined location (550 BC - AD 300)
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- Kanobikon Stoma (550 BC - AD 300)
- Kanobikon Stoma connection Internum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Kanobikon Stoma connection Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Kanobikos (river) flows into Kanobikon Stoma (unspecified date range)
river mouth
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 74 C2 Kanobikon Stoma
- Bernand 1970 62-99
- El Fattah, T. A. and O. E. Frihy. 1988. "Magnetic Indications of the Position of the Mouth of the Old Canopic Branch on the Northwestern Nile Delta of Egypt." Journal of Coastal Research 4.3:483-8.
- Toussoun 1925 I 161-70
- Trismegistos GEO ID: 4356
- Wikipedia (English) Nile Delta
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 C2 Kanobikon Stoma
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A. Bernand, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kanobikon Stoma: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/727137> [accessed: 26 April 2025]
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