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Deire (Gebel Segan)

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Strabon, Geographia

Passus 16, 4, 05 [a] (C 769): ἡ Δειρη

Date: AD 15 - 23 about?
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Details: 'Artemidoros says that the promontory on the Arabian side opposite to Deire is called Akila; and that the males in the neighbourhood of Deire have their sexual glands mutilated.'
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