Triakontaschoinos in 218 B.C.

Triakontaschoinos — Ptolemaic Egypt › The Frontier Zones.

The "Land of Thirty Schoinoi" in Lower Nubia, above the First Cataract — a debated march between Egypt and Kush. Its northern stretch, the Dodekaschoinos ("Twelve-Mile Land"), was dedicated as temple-land to Isis of Philae, whose island sanctuary anchors Ptolemaic religion on the frontier. Beyond lie the gold mines of the Wadi Allaqi, the prize that draws the crown southward and pits it against the Kushite kings of Meroë.