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[Qirmisin]/[Kermanshahan] — by A. Hausleiter — last modified May 31, 2023 08:33 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 92 C2 [Qirmisin]/[Kermanshahan]

[Terqa]/Asicha? — by M. Roaf — last modified Jan 12, 2024 10:24 AM

[Terqa]/Asicha? was an ancient city located at the site of Tell Ashara on the banks of the Euphrates river.

Anatho — by M. Roaf — last modified Jan 11, 2024 05:36 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 91 C3 Anatho

Antikythera shipwreck — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Nov 01, 2024 10:01 AM

The so-called Antikythera shipwreck dates to the second quarter of the first century BCE. Sponge divers discovered the shipwreck near Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900. The wreck has produced numerous artifacts, including an object known commonly as the Antikythera mechanism.

Ashqelon/Ascalon — by B. Isaac — last modified Feb 06, 2024 01:51 PM

Ashqelon/Ascalon was an ancient city in coastal Palestine, located midway between Azotus and Gaza. It became independent in 104 B.C. and remained the only free city in Palestine. Strabo refers to it, while Pliny calls it a free city (oppidum libera).

Atyochorion — by T. Drew Bear — last modified Feb 02, 2021 06:22 PM

An ancient settlement in Phrygia on the Maeander river that was known to have sanctuaries dedicated to Apollo Lairmenos and to Zeus Trossou. It was probably located at or near modern Akkent in Çal, Turkey.

Bersiba — by T. Sinclair — last modified Sep 07, 2024 03:56 PM

Bersiba was an ancient site in Syria, inhabited as early as the Neolithic period. To the Hittites the site was known as Masuwari.

Cantigi — by P.O. Spann — last modified Feb 27, 2023 06:02 AM

An ancient settlement attested by an ethnic name in a single, fragmentary funerary inscription. The 19th century findspot of the inscription, presumably in the immediate vicinity of the ancient town, was at a locality called "Plaza de Armas" located to the northeast of (and across the Guadalquivir from) the modern Spanish town of Espelúy (Jaén, Andalucia).

Dhahran — by D.T. Potts — last modified Mar 21, 2023 12:54 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 95 C3 Dhahran

Edremit — by M. Roaf — last modified Mar 24, 2023 02:39 PM

Edremit is a modern settlement and associated administrative region in the Van Province in the southeast of Turkey. In the vicinity, several inscriptions on rock and stone of the Urartian king Minua (9th / 8th century BCE) have been found which report the construction of the 'Canal of Minua'. In Greek and Roman times, Ptolemy gives the name "Artemita" for a settlement that modern scholars believe was located at Edremit.

Falerii Veteres — by W.V. Harris — last modified Jul 09, 2024 01:59 PM

Falerii Veteres was the principal city of the Faliscans. It is located on a tuff outcropping at the point where several tributaries of the Treia join to flow into the Tiber. After rebelling against Rome in 241 B.C., Falerii suffered serious reversals of fortune.

Fontalovskaya — by David Braund — last modified Mar 04, 2024 01:10 PM

Modern village on the Taman Peninsula. It was the find-spot of a hoard of first-century didrachms.

Gherla — by J.J. Wilkes — last modified Apr 27, 2023 10:24 AM

Gherla is a Roman fort or castrum located in Dacia. Epigraphic evidence suggests a foundation date ca. 143 CE. The site came to be abandoned in the third century.

Gruia — by Gabriel Mckee — last modified Oct 31, 2018 05:40 PM

Modern village on the left bank of the Danube and the findspot of the Gruia hoard. This hoard of 1,509 Roman coins was buried in the middle of the 3rd century near the Roman road connecting Drobeta and Sucidava.

Heroonpolis — by A. Bernand — last modified Jan 05, 2024 11:21 AM

Heroonpolis, located at Tell el-Maskhuta, was an ancient Egyptian city of the Nile Delta.

Horologium Augusti — by Sara Hales — last modified Jun 18, 2024 08:44 AM

The Horologium Augusti or Solarium Augusti was an ancient monument of the Campus Martius built during the reign of Augustus. In theory, it functioned as a giant solar marker. An obelisk relocated to Rome from Heliopolis served as the gnomon. The obelisk today stands in the Piazza di Monte Citorio.

Hutcheson Hill — by Scott Vanderbilt — last modified Jul 07, 2019 05:49 PM

Findspot of two Roman distance slabs along the line of the Antonine Wall: RIB 2198 (found in 1865) and 3507 (found in 1969).

Ierusalem/Hierosolyma/Col. Aelia Capitolina — by B. Isaac — last modified Jun 12, 2024 09:43 AM

The city of Jerusalem.

Karmir-blur — by David Braund — last modified Jan 05, 2024 12:12 PM

Karmir Blur (or "Red Hill") is the ancient Urartian site of Teishebaini, a fortified city of the seventh century BC built by Rusa II.

London Mithraeum — by Scott Vanderbilt — last modified Aug 30, 2023 05:38 PM

A temple sacred to Mithras in Londinium that was discovered in 1954. The visible remains of the temple do not sit on the original site, but have been reassembled at Temple Court, Queen Victoria Street, London.