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Traianos Potamos
TM Geo 7695
Egypt - 8th Lower Egyptian nome, Heroopolites (Tell el-Maskhuta) (L08)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - and in the Eastern desert (admin.)
Status: canal: dioryx; potamos; amnis; fossa
Greek name(s): Πτολεμαῖος ποταμός - Τραιανὸς ποταμός - Τραιανὴ διῶρυξ - Δακικὸς ποταμός
Latin name(s): Ptolomaeus Amnis - Traiani Fossa
Variants: Nekou Dioryx - Ptolemaios Potamos (Ptolemaeus Amnis) - Traianos Potamos (Traiane Dioryx) - Dakikos Potamos - Kainos Potamos
Repertoria: Dizionario IV, p. 206; V, p. 25; Suppl. 2, p. 220; p. 220 (1-2); Suppl. 3, p. 152; Suppl. 5, p. 49; p. 100-101
Biblio: Calderini, Aegyptus 1 (1920), p. 43-; Calderini, Aegyptus 20 (1940), p. 214-231; Sijpesteijn, Aegyptus 46 (1963), p. 70-73; Jördens e.a., Pap. Congr. XXIV (Helsinki 2004), 2007, p. 469-485
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 49 (Nile-Red Sea canal); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 53 [a] (Trajan's Canal); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 70 A5-B5 (Nekou Diorux); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 74 E4-H5 (Ptolemaios / Traianos Potamos); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 74 E4-H5 (Nekou Diorux [bis]); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 76 B1-B2 (Nekou Diorux); BSOAS 15 (1953), p. 28 (Nile Canal); d'Anville, Aegyptus antiqua, 1765 (Ptolemaeus Canalis); d'Anville, Égypte nommé dans le pays Missir, 1765 (Vestiges du Canal); JEA 39 (1953), p. 95 Vo inset (Nile Canal)
