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Porticone — by N. Purcell — last modified Dec 02, 2016 11:01 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 44 G2 Porticone

Poseidonia/Paestum — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Jul 09, 2024 10:24 AM

A major Greco-Roman center of south Italy, Poseidonia/Paestum was originally founded by Greeks from Sybaris in the seventh century BC, who named the settlement Poseidonia. After the Pyrrhic war, the city became a Latin colony named Paestum ca. 273 BC.

Posideion — by J.P. Brown — last modified Jan 09, 2024 10:32 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 68 A2 Posideion

Potachidai — by G. Reger — last modified Mar 31, 2021 03:30 PM

An ancient settlement, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today

Poteidaia/Kassandreia — by E.N. Borza — last modified May 22, 2024 03:46 PM

Poteidaia/Kassandreia was a Greek colony founded ca. 600 BC by Corinthians on the peninsula of Pallene in western Chalcidice. The site received a Roman colony in 43 B.C. and in 30 B.C. Augustus settled veterans there, renaming it as Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis.

Potidaion — by J. Bennet — last modified Aug 01, 2020 08:29 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 60 E4 Potidaion

Potniai — by J. Fossey — last modified Jun 08, 2018 07:28 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 55 E4 Potniai

Praeneste — by L. Quilici — last modified Jun 20, 2023 11:38 AM

An ancient city of central Italy, the eighth and seventh century B.C. origins of which demonstrate high-level trade contact with the Eastern Mediterranean world. The city withdrew from the Latin League (499 B.C.) and opposed Rome in the Latin war; Cincinnatus eventually subdued Praeneste. Sulla founded a new colony there in the first century B.C.

Praisos — by J. Bennet — last modified Nov 16, 2023 08:51 PM

Praisos is an ancient settlement of eastern Crete occupied from the Late Minoan period until ca. 150 BC, when it was destroyed by its neighbour, Hierapytna.

Prasiai — by G. Reger — last modified Apr 19, 2024 10:07 AM

An ancient settlement of Laconia, mentioned in a number of ancient sources. The site is located near modern Paralio Leonidi.

Premis — by S.M. Burstein — last modified May 10, 2024 03:48 PM

Qasr Ibrim is an archaeological site in Lower Nubia. The site has a long history of occupation stretching from the eighth century B.C. to 1813.

Prinias (Patela) — by J. Bennet — last modified Oct 06, 2023 05:01 PM

An Iron Age settlement on the Patela plateau north of the modern village of Prinias; its ancient name is uncertain. The site is notable for its occupation from the end of the Bronze Age through to the Archaic period, as well as for the monumental architecture and Orientalizing sculpture of its Buildings ('Temples') A and B.

Priniatikos Pyrgos — by Frank Lynam — last modified Jan 11, 2024 07:41 PM

Priniatikos Pyrgos is located on a limestone headland jutting out into the southwest corner of the Gulf of Mirabello in East Crete. Ongoing survey and excavation in the vicinity is producing evidence of occupation from at least the Late Neolithic down through the Late Roman and Byzantine periods. Whatever ancient names may have been applied to these settlements are as yet unknown.

Proch-Balat — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Oct 31, 2018 05:21 PM

A pre-Roman oppidum.

Proconnesus — by C. Foss — last modified Jun 07, 2018 07:29 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 52 B3 Proconnesus

Proerna — by J. Fossey — last modified Jun 07, 2018 04:46 PM

An ancient city in Tetras or Achaia Phthiotis in Greece.

Prophitis Ilias — by J. Bennet — last modified Oct 20, 2012 04:33 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 60 E2 Prophitis Ilias

Prosymna — by G. Reger — last modified Aug 27, 2020 09:36 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 unlocated Prosymna

Prunetta — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Oct 09, 2021 11:25 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 46 D2 Prunetta

Prusias ad Mare/Kios — by C. Foss — last modified Jun 18, 2023 10:14 PM

Prusias ad Mare/Kios was an ancient Greek city on the Propontis. The city joined the Aetolian League and was destroyed by Philip V of Macedon. Prusias I of Bithynia rebuilt the site, naming it for himself.