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TM Geo 23
SudanThe region ca. 250 BC - provincia: outside the Imperium RomanumThe provincia ca. 200 AD - Aethiopia (admin.) - located on the western Nile bank - same as Bonchis (Abschek) (Sudan) (TM Geo 3901)? Bogghi (Ballana) (TM Geo 3449)?
Links: Pleiades
Status: village: kome
Greek name(s): Ἀβουνκις
Modern name(s): Kobodi
Variants: Abounkis - Aboccis - Kobodi
Repertoria: Dizionario I 1, p. 4; p. 5; Barrington Atlas, 2000, p. 1184 (pl. 81 unlocated)
Biblio: Priese, Meroitica 7 (1984), p. 489; Fontes Historiae Nubiorum 3, 1998, p. 930
Note: Fontes (cf. Stückelberger / Grasshoff, Ptolemaios, 2006, p. 463) identifies Abounkis with Bogghi (Ballana) (3449), but if so, one has to suppose that the coordinates of Ptolemaios (which imply a position between the 3rd and the 4th cataract) are not correct