Phoinikon (Laqeita)

TM Geo 5036

Egypt - Eastern desert (Eastern desert)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located along the road between U05 Koptos (Qift) (TM Geo 1159) and Berenike (Bender el-Kebir) (TM Geo 416), west of Wadi Hammamat (TM Geo 2839)
25.89276,33.12614 (Lat,Long)

Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, GeoNames, Pleiades, Talbert Peutinger

Status: camp: *praesidium; well: hydreuma; city?: civitas; station: praesidium

Greek name(s): Φοινικών
Latin name(s): Poeniconon - Foenicionis - Phenice - Phinice - Hydreuma
Modern name(s): Laqeita
Variants: Phoinikon (Phynikon) - Hydreuma - Laqeita (El-Lakita - Lakeita - Al-Laqita)

Repertoria: Dizionario V, p. 95 (1); Suppl. 4, p. 139 (1); Suppl. 5, p. 107 (1)
Biblio: Cuvigny (ed.), La route de Myos Hormos, 2003, p. 54; p. 275; Cuvigny, Le désert oriental d'Égypte, 2018, § 105-173
Map: Arrowsmith, Map of Upper Egypt, 1807 (Wells of Lequitta - Wells at Leguilla); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 108-109 (Laqeita / Phoinikon); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 187 [a] (Laqeita); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 25 (Laqeita); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 53 [a] (Laqeita / Phoinikon); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 71 (Laqeita); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 C2 (Phoinikon); Bengtson, Weltatlas, 1978(6), pl. 36 a D5 (Phoenicon); BIFAO 95 (1995), p. 209 fig. 1 (Al-Laqīṭa (Phoinicôn)); Brun e.a. (ed.), Le désert oriental d'Égypte [Cuvigny], 2018, § 1 fig. 1 inset (Phoinikôn); BSOAS 16 (1954), p. 212 (Phoenicon); Cuvigny (ed.), La route de Myos Hormos, 2003, p. 663 (Phoinikôn); d'Anville, Aegyptus antiqua, 1765 (Phoenicon); Egyptian series 1:50,000, map NG 36 G4c, 1989 (Al-Laqīṭah); Floyer, Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1887 (El Gaita); Floyer, Eastern desert or northern Etbai, 1893 (Legayta); Geological survey of Egypt (Cairo), 1979, map NG 36 (El Lageita); Jacotin, Carte geographique de l'Égypte, 1818, map 3 (La Guitta, anc. Phoenicon); JEA 11 (1925), p. 138 pl. 11 (Phoenicon (Laḳêta)); JEA 38 (1952), p. 95 fig. 1 (Phoenicon (Laḳētah)); JEA 39 (1953), p. 95 Vo (Phoenicon); Jomard, Carte itinéraire, 1820 (la Guiltah); Jomard, Carte itinéraire, 1820 (Phoenicon); Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1892), p. 812 (Legeita); Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1892), p. 812 (Phoenikon); Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 2 (1832), p. 28 no. 2 (el Eghayta wells); LÄ VI, 1986, col. 1101-1102 no. 1 (Lakeita); LÄ VII, 1992, map 4 (Laqeita); Pococke, A description of the East, 1743, I, p. 1 (Peniconon); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 1 (plan) (El Gaëta); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 1 (profil) (El Gaëta); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 8 (El Gaëta); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 9 (Legêta); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 4 (68 / al-Laqitah); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. vi (Eghuita W.); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. vi (Phonicon); Tabula Imperii Romani. Coptos, 1958 (Phoenicon / Laqeita)