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TM Geo 8372
SudanThe region ca. 250 BC - provincia: outside the Imperium RomanumThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located between the 2nd and the 3rd cataract, 64 miles (ca. 96 km) south of Primis Megale (TM Geo 3444)
19.93213,30.287072 (Lat,Long)
Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Pleiades
Status: city?
Latin name(s): Acina - Achina
Egyptian name(s): Ỉkn - ȝknyȝ?
Modern name(s): Tagab?
Variants: Acina (Achina) - Aqen - Akiñ - Tagab?
Repertoria: Dizionario I 1, p. 44; I 2, p. 425; Gauthier, Dictionnaire I, 1925, p. 109; p. 111; p. 158; III, 1926, p. 145
Biblio: Griffith, JEA 11 (1925), p. 260 (k); p. 261; Griffith, Graff. Dodec., 1937, p. 31; Hintz, MIO 9 (1963), p. 13 no. 109; Priese, Sudan im Altertum, 1973, p. 124; Leclant, Top. Ant., 1977, p. 160; Millet, ZÄS 108 (1981), p. 139; Priese, Meroitica 7 (1984), p. 493; Török, ZÄS 111 (1984), p. 64; Burkhardt, Meroitica 8 (1985), p. 101; Török, Kingdom of Kush (1997), p. 434; p. 476; p. 486; p. 490; Fontes Historiae Nubiorum 3, 1998, p. 879; CDD ȝ, 2002, p. 96
Map: Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 82 A2
Note: some scholars consider Acina the name of a town or village (< Plinius), others see it as the northern province of the Meroitic kingdom