Historical place profile
Akila/Okelis
A coastal station or anchorage and associated settlement that scholars identify with the modern Khawr/Khor Ghurayrah on Yemen's Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd headland in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. This small bay is almost closed by sand and coral reefs today. The precise location of the ancient settlement is not known.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:39279
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:39279
- Place type
- bay, settlement, settlement-modern, station
- Coordinates
- 12.713776, 43.479116
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A coastal station or anchorage and associated settlement that scholars identify with the modern Khawr/Khor Ghurayrah on Yemen's Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd headland in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. This small bay is almost closed by sand and coral reefs today. The precise location of the ancient settlement is not known.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 B3 Akila/Okelis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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