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Hodos Myshormitike Roman road map

About 188 km long, also known as Myos Hormos road. The red line is the route recorded in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads.

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Key
  • Certain Well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m
  • Conjectured Known road, course less precisely documented
  • Hypothetical Route not pinned down, or existence uncertain
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

About the Hodos Myshormitike

The Hodos Myshormitike is a Roman road about 188 km long in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads. It is mapped as 14 separate segments within Egypt. 3 Roman places lie along it, from Myos Hormos? to Coptos.

Only 46% of the Hodos Myshormitike is classed as certain; 54% is conjectured.

  • 188 kmlength
  • 14segments
  • 3Roman places
  • 1country

How sure are we where it ran?

How certainLength (km)Share
Certain87.146%
Conjectured10054%
Hypothetical00%

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

Where the Hodos Myshormitike goes

CountryLength (km)
Egypt188

Roman places along the Hodos Myshormitike

In order along the route, from Myos Hormos? to Coptos. Names are the Roman ones from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  1. Myos Hormos?
  2. Matula
  3. Coptos

Modern towns near the route

These towns and cities are within about 4 km of the road, in route order.

  • Qifţ (Egypt)

Source

Road name as recorded in the Itinerary field of Itiner-e (version 2024 1.3, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17122148). Sources most often cited by its 14 segments (segments citing each in brackets): [1] Redon and Manière 2022a (11): Redon, Bérangère & Manière, Louis (2022). Coptos-Myos Hormos Ptolemaic reconstructed road. in Desert Networks project. https://desertnetworks.huma-num.fr/itineraries/DN_ITI012. [2] Redon and Manière 2022b (2): Redon, Bérangère & Manière, Louis (2022). Coptos-Myos Hormos 1-50AD reconstructed road. in Desert Networks project. https://desertnetworks.huma-num.fr/itineraries/DN_ITI013. [3] Redon and Manière 2022c (1): Redon, Bérangère & Manière, Louis (2022). Coptos-Myos Hormos 51-100AD reconstructed road. in Desert Networks project. https://desertnetworks.huma-num.fr/itineraries/DN_ITI014.. Route lines: Itiner-e, CC BY 4.0. See all data sources and licences.

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