Wadi Zamzam
URI
Coordinates
Latitude: 31.4, Longitude: 15.283333
Provenance: NGA
Latitude: 31.4, Longitude: 15.28333 , Altitude: 25m
Provenance: Geonames
Latitude: 30.5, Longitude: 13.5
Provenance: Pleiades
External URIs
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344567
http://www.geonames.org/2208638
http://inslib.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/introductions/I11_wadizemzem.html
Variant names
Feature type(s)
Area (conceptual/geographic) , River/drainage/wadi
Relationships with other locations
Parent features
- Wadi Zamzam forms part of The pre-desert zone (Kenrick)
- Wadi Zamzam forms part of Tripolitana (Mattingly)
- Wadi Zamzam forms part of Tripolitania (Reynolds)
Child features
The locations below are contained within Wadi Zamzam
Notes
Reynolds, IRT, Chapter 11: The Wadi Zemzem lies some 50-60 km. to the south-east of the Wadi Sofeggin, and it includes Ghirza, the largest inhabited centre in the whole of the frontier zone. Near the head of the Wadi, not far from the eastern fringe of the Hamada el-Hamra, is the legionary fortress of Ghériat el-Garbia. This was one of the three outlying posts established by Severus and by his immediate successors to guard the main caravan-routes up from the interior. It marks the extreme southern fringe of an area in which numerous limitane settlements are known to exist.
Related catalogue entries
- Zemzem, SLS Archive
- Article: "From Sofeggin to Zemzem" by Graeme Barker and Barri Jones, SLS Archive
- African Expedition, 1958., SLS Archive
- Volume One., SLS Archive
- African Expedition, 1958., SLS Archive