Tagisken Plateau
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Feb 10, 2023 09:55 AM
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A plateau in modern Uzbekistan near the Aral Sea containing two burial sites dating to the first millennium BCE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236955527
44.268062, 63.655488
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- Imagery location of Tagisken Plateau (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Taгискен (Tagisken: Russian, modern)
- Tagisken Plateau located near Iaxartes/Silis/Tanais (river) (unspecified date range)
- Tagisken North located at Tagisken Plateau (unspecified date range)
- Tagisken South located at Tagisken Plateau (unspecified date range)
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The Tagisken plateau contains two burial sites: A larger southern site dated to the early Saka period (7th-5th centuries BCE) and a smaller northern site used throughout the first half of the first millennium BCE (Itina & IAblonskiĭ 2001).
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Tagisken Plateau: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236955527> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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