Historical place profile
Hermonthis
Modern Armant, an important town of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom that was enlarged during the Eighteenth Dynasty and continued to thrive through the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Coptic periods.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:786036
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:786036
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 25.619880, 32.543050
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Modern Armant, an important town of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom that was enlarged during the Eighteenth Dynasty and continued to thrive through the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Coptic 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: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 80 B2 Hermonthis
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
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