Mareia?/Philoxenite

settlement · 550 BC – 2099 AD

Immediately north of modern Hawwariya on the southern shore of Lake Mariout in Egypt, archaeological excavations have uncovered an extensive and evidently purpose-built settlement of the latter sixth century CE, with remains of harbor and industrial installations, baths, shops, a funerary church, and a large basilica. This site, probably to be identified as Philoxenite, catered to the needs of pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Saint Menas in Abu Mina. It expanded and replaced a site of at least Hellenistic and Roman date that is perhaps to be identified as Mareia.

Coordinates

30.99482, 29.65639

Also known as

Al-Hawwāriyyah, Al Hawwārīyah, Ḥawwārīya, Hawwariya, El Haouaria (ar), Mareia (grc), Philoxenite (grc), الهوارية (ar)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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