Sexi/Saxetanum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: P.O. Spann
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, Gabriel Bodard
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 17, 2019 03:09 PM
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History
Sexi/Saxetanum (modern Almuñécar) was a Phoenician colony established ca. 800 BC that eventually became a Roman one (Sexi Firmum Iulium).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/266038
36.734589, -3.690755
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 3539 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Almuñécar (Spanish, modern)
- Caesarea (750 BC - AD 640)
- Firmum Iulium (750 BC - AD 640)
- Saxetanum (750 BC - AD 640)
- Sexi (750 BC - AD 640)
- None
- Industrial area at Sexi/Saxetanum located at Sexi/Saxetanum (unspecified date range)
- Roman baths at Sexi/Saxetanum located at Sexi/Saxetanum (unspecified date range)
- Torrecuevas aqueduct connection Sexi/Saxetanum (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed Aqueduct at Sexi/Saxetanum located at Sexi/Saxetanum (unspecified date range)
settlement, port
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 27 B5 Sexi/Saxetanum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Almuñécar
The original phase of the extensive fish-salting factory at Almuñécar dates to the fourth century B.C. and was built under Punic influence. The factory was later re-vamped during the Roman period. The fish products from Almuñécar were highly prized.
P.O. Spann, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, and Gabriel Bodard, 'Sexi/Saxetanum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/266038> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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