Argaeus (mountain)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T.B. Mitford Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T.B. Mitford Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Erciyes Dağı in Turkish. A massive volcanic mountain, the highest peak of the Antitaurus range. Commonly depicted on coins from Cappadocia.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/628932
38.5319536, 35.4489507
- Representative Locations:
- Summit of Erciyes Dağı (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Argaeus (mountain) connection Antitaurus Mons (unspecified date range)
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mountain
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 64 A3 Argaeus M.
Argaeus Mons is commonly depicted on coins from Cappadocia. Casearea, just north of the mountain, hosted a mint.
The reverse side of the coin (1983.159.38) depicted in the image above, used by permission of the American Numismatic Society, bears a representation of Argaeus Mons.
T.B. Mitford, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Argaeus (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/628932> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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