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TM Geo 5306
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) - cf. also Bir Daghbag (TM Geo 52985)
25.328374,33.837067 (Lat,Long)
Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire [2], Pleiades, Pleiades [2], Talbert Peutinger
Status: camp: *praesidium; well: hydreuma
Greek name(s): Κομπασι
Latin name(s): Compasi - Conpasin - Comvasin - Hydreuma
Modern name(s): Daghbag
Variants: Kompasi (Compasi) - Hydreuma - Daghbag (Daghbag I - Daghbag South - Daghbag East - Dakhbaj - Dógbadj - Dobadj)
Repertoria: Dizionario I 2, p. 302 (s.v. Aphroditopolis 6); III, p. 138
Biblio: Golenischeff, RecTrav 13 (1891), p. 95; Cuvigny, Chiron 35 (2005), p. 323; Cuvigny, Le désert oriental d'Égypte, 2018, § 105-173
Map: Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 D3 (Compasi); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 D3 (Daghbag South); Bengtson, Weltatlas, 1978(6), pl. 36 a D5 (Compasis); BIFAO 95 (1995), p. 209 fig. 1 (Bīr-Daġbag (Compasi)); Brun e.a. (ed.), Le désert oriental d'Égypte [Cuvigny], 2018, § 1 fig. 1 inset (Kompasi); BSOAS 16 (1954), p. 212 (Compasi); d'Anville, Aegyptus antiqua, 1765 (Compasi); Egyptian series 1:50,000, map NG 36 G2d, 1989 (Kambāsī); Jacotin, Carte geographique de l'Égypte, 1818, map 3 (Compasi); JEA 11 (1925), p. 138 pl. 11 (Compasi (Daghbag)); JEA 39 (1953), p. 95 Vo (Compasi); Jomard, Carte itinéraire, 1820 (Compasi); Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1892), p. 812 (Compasi / Abu Gureya); NeHet 6 (2018), p. 32 fig. 1 (Daghbag); Pococke, A description of the East, 1743, I, p. 1 (Compasi); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 258 fig. 3.230 (Dakhbaj/Compasi (site 59)); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 4 (58 / Dakhbaj South); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 4 (59 / Dakhbaj); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. vi (Compasi); Survey of Egypt 1:100,000, sheet 2, 1943 (Bîr el-Daghbag [south]); Survey of Egypt 1:100,000, sheet 2, 1943 (Compasi - Ruins [bis]); Tabula Imperii Romani. Coptos, 1958 (Compasi / W. Daghbag); U.S. Army Map Service, map NG 36-11 (2nd ed.), 1958 (Bîr el-Daghbag [south])
Note: the identification with the neary Bir Daghbag (52985) is not correct; obsolete identification: Aphroditopolis (Eastern desert) (235)
TM id | Publication | Status | Material | Language | Date | Provenance |
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369042 | Cuvigny, Rome in Egypt's eastern desert p. 313-314 no. 145 | [written] | pottery | Greek | AD02 | Egypt, Eastern desert - Kompasi (Daghbag) [written] Egypt, Eastern desert - Dios (Abu Qurayyah) [find place & destination] |
369043 | Cuvigny, Rome in Egypt's eastern desert p. 315-318 no. 1246 | [written] | pottery | Greek | AD02 | Egypt, Eastern desert - Kompasi (Daghbag) [written] Egypt, Eastern desert - Dios (Abu Qurayyah) [find place & destination] |