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Location:

  • Egypt, Al Laqīţah
  • geo:26.009844,33.608463
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • 4xx / unknown

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

See:

  1. Carol Meyer, Bir Umm Fawakhir in: Oriental Institute 1997-1998 Annual Report - https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/ar/91-00/97-98/97-98_Fawakhir.pdf
  2. Bi’r Umm Fawâkhir: Gold Mining in Byzantine Times in the Eastern Desert  By Carol Meyer    https://books.openedition.org/cdf/5246?lang=en

  3. Bir Umm Fawakhir 3.  1999 - 2001.  By Carol Meyer     https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/oip141.pdf
  4. The Oxford Roman Economy Project    https://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/mines_database/480to500/records/1527/

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