Historical place profile

Sacred Animal Necropolis (Ṣaqqārah)

Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Ṣaqqārah, Egypt, used from the Archaic to the Ptolemaic Period, with the remains of the Christian settlement of Apa Antinos superimposed upon the remains of the necropolis.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:616791789
Catalogue ID
pleiades:616791789
Place type
cemetery, settlement
Coordinates
29.881740, 31.215302
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Ṣaqqārah, Egypt, used from the Archaic to the Ptolemaic Period, with the remains of the Christian settlement of Apa Antinos superimposed upon the remains of the necropolis.

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

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