Historical place profile
*Sioua
"Sioua" is the Greek reconstruction of an ancient toponym (found in Egyptian sources: S·t-wȝḥ) that encompassed some part of the western end of the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt (certainly the site now known as Deir al-Haggar was included, and possibly also Amheida).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:776223
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:776223
- Place type
- region, settlement, temple-2
- Coordinates
- 25.664804, 28.813315
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
"Sioua" is the Greek reconstruction of an ancient toponym (found in Egyptian sources: S·t-wȝḥ) that encompassed some part of the western end of the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt (certainly the site now known as Deir al-Haggar was included, and possibly also Amheida).
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 *Sioua
Source and reuse
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Research path
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