Historical place profile
Bi'r Minayh
Multi-period site surrounding a well in Wadi Minayh, eastern Egypt. The site includes a mining settlement or Christian lavra dated to the 4th-6th centuries CE, an earlier Pharaonic settlement, and numerous inscriptions from the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom periods.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:579872604
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:579872604
- Place type
- settlement, well
- Coordinates
- 25.558291, 33.606440
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Multi-period site surrounding a well in Wadi Minayh, eastern Egypt. The site includes a mining settlement or Christian lavra dated to the 4th-6th centuries CE, an earlier Pharaonic settlement, and numerous inscriptions from the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom periods.
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: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
Compare this place with the chronological map at the relevant year, nearby political units, routes, institutions and the period portals. Where the source record is silent about jurisdiction, population or ecclesiastical rank, this profile makes no such claim.