Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Download KML

Download Atom + GeoRSS

Phakoussa — by A. Bernand — last modified Apr 12, 2023 05:55 PM

The modern city of Faqous in the southeastern portion of the Nile delta is thought to have been built atop an ancient city known to the Greeks as Phakoussa. Strabo identifies it as the terminus of an ancient canal connecting to the Red Sea.

Pharis — by G. Reger — last modified Apr 24, 2024 08:51 AM

Pharis or Phare was an ancient site in Laconia located in the Spartan plain along the route leading from Amyclae to the coast. It was abandoned by Pausanias' day. Shipley ventures a tentative identification with the area of modern Vapheio where there is evidence for a Bronze Age settlement with tholos tomb.

Pharkadon — by J. Fossey — last modified Apr 09, 2024 11:03 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 55 C1 Pharkadon

Phayttos — by J. Fossey — last modified May 23, 2022 03:38 PM

An ancient settlement of Thessaly, located at modern Zarko/Zarkos in Greece.

Pherai — by G. Reger — last modified Oct 09, 2020 07:33 AM

An Archaic period to Roman period settlement located near Kalamata, Messinia in the Peloponnese.

Philadelpheia — by C. Foss — last modified May 05, 2024 01:11 PM

An ancient settlement of Asia Minor, modern Alaşehir, Turkey.

Phocaea — by C. Foss — last modified Sep 12, 2023 07:45 PM

An ancient settlement of Asia Minor, modern Foça in Turkey.

Phoinix — by J. Bennet — last modified Feb 07, 2024 11:19 PM

Phoinix was an ancient coastal city of western Crete that served as the port of inland Anopolis and also of later Aradena.

Phoinix — by C. Foss — last modified Oct 31, 2023 03:47 PM

An ancient city of Caria located on the Loryma peninsula southwest of Marmaris.

Pholegandros (settlement) — by J. Bennet — last modified Mar 24, 2022 10:41 PM

An ancient settlement on the island of Pholegandros in the Creticum Mare. Located at the modern village of Chora (Palaiokastro).

Piana di Monte Verna — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Mar 02, 2023 12:09 PM

An ancient Oscan center delimited by a megalithic fortification wall.

Pimolisa — by C. Foss — last modified Aug 23, 2021 04:47 PM

A fortified town of Paphlagonia on the Halys river, Pimolisa had been destroyed by Strabo's time. The district retained a memory of its name, however.

Plakoti — by W.M. Murray — last modified Jan 08, 2021 07:14 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 54 B2 Plakoti

Podalia — by C. Foss — last modified Jan 23, 2023 05:15 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 65 D4 Podalia

Polemonion/Side — by T. Sinclair — last modified May 22, 2024 03:19 PM

A harbor city on the Black Sea, Polemonion/Side was founded in the region of Sidene (Pontus) by either Polemon I or Polemon II of Pontus. Following the Roman annexation of the Pontic kingdom in the 60s CE, the city's importance declined substantially.

Pons Dubris — by G.D. Woolf — last modified Nov 09, 2024 10:42 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 18 C3 Pons Dubris

Ponte Buriano — by W.V. Harris — last modified Sep 16, 2024 05:09 PM

The bridge known as Ponte Buriano is located at the hamlet of Ponte a Buriano, Italy. The bridge spans the Arno River and dates initially from 1277.

Ponte di Malafede — by L. Quilici — last modified Jun 18, 2024 11:27 PM

A Roman bridge that is no longer extant. Quilici notes that the bridge was destroyed both by the Second World War and by urbanization that followed in the post-war period. Blake publishes a photo of E. B. van Deman and indicates that the bridge was built in peperino and of "indeterminate date". She compares the Ponte di Malafede with the construction of the Via Appia viaduct that lies just beyond Ariccia, a structure that was Augustan in its date.

Portus Veneris — by H.S. Sivan — last modified Jul 26, 2018 09:25 AM

An ancient seaport located near Cape Béar, modern Port-Vendres in France.

Poseidon Porthmios, T. — by J. Bennet — last modified Feb 09, 2024 02:33 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 60 E4 Poseidon Porthmios, T.