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Research atlas for early Christianity. Claims are tagged attested, traditional, or disputed. Copyrighted full texts, including CCEL editions, are not included.

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Thebaid and the eastern desert

Upper Egypt and the Eastern Desert

26.800, 33.400

Attested. The region is right. The coordinate stands for a wide area, not a surveyed cell.

Thebaid and the eastern desert

Upper Egypt and the Eastern Desert

No photograph is attached. This panel is a placeholder, not a picture of the site. The pin uses the coordinates above.

A regional pin, not a monastery gate. Upper Egypt and the desert east of the Nile were Antony's landscape and the hiding country of Athanasius's exile that began in 356. Antony's inner mountain lay nearer the Red Sea.

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No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.

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