Philoteras was a Ptolemaic port city on the Red Sea . It is mentioned in the Periplus Maris Erythraei (40–70 AD) , among other places . Philoteras will u. a. identified with the port of Mersa Gawasis . Murray wants to equate it with a place inside the Wadi Gawasis.
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^ Sayed: Wadi Gasus in: Bard, Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt , 1999, pp. 866-868.
↑ Ronald E. Zitterkopf / Steven E. Sidebotham, Stations and Towers on the Quseir-Nile Road. Journal of Egyptian Archeology 75, 1989, 155.
