Prionotus Mons
Πριώνοτον ὄρος
Prionotus Mons (Πριώνοτον ὄρος), a mountain in the southern part of Arabia, in the territory of the Adramitae, identified by Forster with Ras Broom, a headland forming the termination of a mountain chain and jutting out prominently into the ocean in long. 49°, about 35 miles NE. of Mughda. Prion was a river flowing into the sea near this promontory. (Ptol. 6.7. §§ 10, 13; Forster, Arabia, vol. ii. p. 204, seq.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.