Historical place profile
Mothis
Mūṭ, known in antiquity as Mothis and today as Mūṭ al-Kharāb, a city of the Western Desert that served as a capital of the Dakhleh Oasis region since the Old Kingdom period. In the Late Antique period, it was the capital of the Mothite Nome.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:776202
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:776202
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 25.483192, 28.980561
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Mūṭ, known in antiquity as Mothis and today as Mūṭ al-Kharāb, a city of the Western Desert that served as a capital of the Dakhleh Oasis region since the Old Kingdom period. In the Late Antique period, it was the capital of the Mothite Nome.
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 79 inset Mothis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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