Syrtica (Mattingly)
URI
Coordinates
Latitude: 31.117141, Longitude: 16.622038 , Altitude: 1m
Provenance: Google Earth
Latitude: 30.5, Longitude: 16.5
Provenance: Pleiades
External URIs
http://inslib.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/introductions/I5_sirtica.html
Variant names
Feature type(s)
Area (conceptual/geographic)
Relationships with other locations
Parent features
- Syrtica (Mattingly) forms part of Libya (modern)
Child features
The locations below are contained within Syrtica (Mattingly)
- Abyār Abū Sa‘dah
- Abyār Abū Zāhiyah
- Abyār al Qindīl
- Abyār al ‘Usaylah
- Abyār an Na‘īm
- Ad Ficum
- Al Burayqah
- Al ‘Uqaylah
- An Nawfalīyah
- Ar Ra’s al Aḩmar Qaşr Bin Jawwād
Notes
Chapter 5 in Reynolds, IRT: The narrow coastal strip of the Sirtica, the inhospitable southern coastline of the classical Syrtis Maior, is separated from the settled coastal zone to the north-west by the desolate marshland at the mouth of the Wadis Sofeggin, Zemzem and Bei el-Kebir. It was far more closely allied in antiquity to the frontier districts of the southern slopes of the Djebel and of the Sofeggin basin than to the coastal territories of the Three Cities. Barrington Atlas map 37 and Map-by-Map Directory pp. 552 – 57