Selleis (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.N. Borza
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, G. Reger, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes
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Jun 27, 2024 10:06 AM
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History
A river, mentioned in Homer and later sources, that BAtlas places in Asia Minor, draining into the Hellespont "6 miles E Abydos (Maltepe)" in modern Turkey. Pauly's RE puts it in the same general area, but makes it a tributary of the Rhodios.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501604
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river, drainage
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 51 H4 Selleis fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: 6 miles E Abydos TKY and cites "RE 5," which is clearly an error for "RE 1".
E.N. Borza, R. Talbert, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, G. Reger, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Selleis (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501604> [accessed: 14 November 2024]
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