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TM Geo 6057
SudanThe region ca. 250 BC - provincia: outside the Imperium RomanumThe provincia ca. 200 AD - Aethiopia (admin.) - located between the 3rd and the 4th cataract, on the eastern Nile bank, near Kerma (TM Geo 3456)
Links: Pleiades
Status: village: kome; city: oppidum
Greek name(s): Πνουψ
Latin name(s): Nups
Egyptian name(s): Pr-nbs (Pȝ-nbs)
Modern name(s): Dokki Gel
Variants: Pnoups (Nups) - Dokki Gel (Doukki Gel)
Repertoria: Dizionario III, p. 372; Gauthier, Dictionnaire II, 1925, p. 38; p. 92; Barrington Atlas, 2000, p. 54 (pl. 4 unlocated)
Biblio: Wb 2, 1927, p. 67; Priese, Meroitica 7 (1984), p. 493; Fontes Historiae Nubiorum 2, 1996, p. 556; 3, 1998, p. 808; p. 931; CDD N, 2004, p. 66-67; Valbelle, Orientalia 83 (2014), p. 120-123
Note: the identification Pnoups / Dokki Gel is based upon inscriptions found in 2003 by a Swiss / French expedition (information: Bert Verrept)