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14 septembre 2018
- doi: 10.4000/books.cdf.5253
- eisbn: 9782722604889
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Wilfried Van Rengen, « Some Topographical Problems around Myos Hormos: Philotera-Philoteris », Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/books.cdf.5253
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The topographical issues discussed in this article are a result of the discovery of about 800 ostraka, mainly Greek, during the excavations by the University of Southampton at Qusayr al-Qadim/Myos Hormos (1999-2003). There are few toponyms, but there is one that is relatively well represented: Philoteris, which spontaneously evokes a port on the Red Sea known by the ancient geographers as Philotera, the name of a Ptolemaic foundation, whose exact location is not certain. Our ostraka do not re...