The remains of the Greek trade colony on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, in the estuary of the Orontes River, currently in Hatay Province of Turkey was identified by Leonard Woolley with Herodotus' Posideion. According to Robin Lane Fox it was Diodorus Siculus` Potamoi Karon/Potami Caron 1.
- http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Mina.html
- Hatice Pamir and S. Nishiyama, The Orontes Delta Survey: Archaeological Investigation of Ancient Trade Stations/Settlements, Ancient West & East 1:2, 294-314, Brill; Leiden. Boston 2002
- Diodorus Siculus, Book XIX,79.6
- John Boardman: Al Mina and history. In: Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Band 9, 1990, pp. 169–190.
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- Gunnar Lehmann: Al Mina and the East: A Report on Research in Progress. In: Alexandra Villing (eds.): The Greeks in the East (= British Museum Research Publication. Nr. 157). London 2005, pp. 61–92.