PRIO´NOTUS MONS
PRIO´NOTUS 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.)