Ithome (mountain)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 31, 2023 11:01 PM
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History
Modern Mt. Vurkano, Ithome was the principal high point of ancient Messenia and location of the ancient settlement of Messene and principal Messenian sanctuaries.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570318
37.1857343, 21.9249021
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ithomi (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ithome (750 BC - AD 300)
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- Messene connection Ithome (mountain) (unspecified date range)
- Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis at Messene located on Ithome (mountain) (unspecified date range)
mountain
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 B3 Ithome M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ithome
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, and Tom Elliott, 'Ithome (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570318> [accessed: 16 April 2024]
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