Historical place profile
Sumhuram
A small, fortified town that served as an outpost for the Ḥaḑramawt kingdom from the first to seventh centuries. The archaeological site and its surrounding landscape are known by the modern name Khor Rori, and the town is tentatively identified as Ptolemy's Abyssapolis, and the port of Moscha Limen of the Periplus Maris Erythraei.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:39264
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:39264
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 17.038924, 54.434153
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A small, fortified town that served as an outpost for the Ḥaḑramawt kingdom from the first to seventh centuries. The archaeological site and its surrounding landscape are known by the modern name Khor Rori, and the town is tentatively identified as Ptolemy's Abyssapolis, and the port of Moscha Limen of the Periplus Maris Erythraei.
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 4 D2 Abyssa
Source and reuse
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Research path
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