Aynuna

fort · 330 BC – 2100 AD

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. Settled since at least the Hellenistic period, Aynuna probably served as a Red Sea port for Petra. 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).

Coordinates

28.08804, 35.18441

Also known as

Aynuna, 'Aynuna, Aynouna (ar), Leuke Kome (grc), Onne, Wadi Aynuna, Ouadi Aynouna, Aynuna (Wadi), Aynouna (Ouadi) (ar), λευκή κώμη (grc), عينونة (ar)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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