Aynuna
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.F. Graf Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 25, 2022 10:39 AM
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History
In modern Saudi Arabia, about 3km inland from the modern fishing port of al‑Khuraybah on the Gulf of Aqaba, a pair of ancient Nabatean sites occupy high ground to the northwest of the Wadi Aynuna. Most scholars agree that these sites are to be identified collectively with Leuke Kome, mentioned in Strabo and the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea; however, some other locations have been posited (see Gawlikowski 2022, note 5).
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- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of fortified settlement at Aynuna (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of emporion at Aynuna (100 BC - AD 599) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- عينونة (Aynuna: Arabic, modern)
- Less than certain: λευκή κώμη (Leuke Kome: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Onne (330 BC - AD 300)
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- Wadi Aynuna (Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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settlement (fortified), settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 83 A3 Leuke Kome?/Onne?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: 'Aynuna SAU
D.F. Graf, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aynuna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <http://3.22.44.247/places/814698> [accessed: 04 July 2025]
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