Leukos Limen
Leukos Limen (from ancient Greek λευκός leukós , German 'white' and λιμήν limén , German 'port' - literally 'white port', Egyptian Duau) was a Ptolemaic port on the Red Sea . He is mentioned among other things in the Periplus Maris Erythraei (40-70 AD). Whitcomb and Johnson identify Leukos Limen with Quseir al-Quadim, but this identification is not conclusive due to the location of the find.
It was probably expanded into a larger port at the end of the first century AD.
literature
- DS Whitcomb / JH Johnson, Quseir al-Quadim 1980, preliminary report (Undena 1984).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Getzel M. Cohen: The Hellenistic settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa , University of California Press, 2006, p 331, ISBN 0520241487 ( online )