Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis at Messene

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Tom Elliott

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jul 06, 2020 11:16 AM — History

tags: Artemis

A sanctuary on the slopes of Mount Ithome and within the city walls of ancient Messene in the Peloponnese. It was developed beginning in the 4th-3rd centuries BCE.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/287975074

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.1787108, 21.9302700066

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Tempel der Artemis Limnatis (German, modern)

Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis at Messene makes connections with:

Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis at Messene located on Ithome (mountain) (unspecified date range)
Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis at Messene located at Messene (unspecified date range)

Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis at Messene receives connections from:

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Place type:
sanctuary (religious center)

References:

Evidence:

Paus. (Spiro: Perseus) 4.4.2

See Further:

Koursoumis 2014 page 218

See Also:

PECS (Perseus) MESSENE or Ithome (Mavromati) Messenia, Greece

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis at Messene: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/287975074> [accessed: 30 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/287975074 |title=Places: 287975074 (Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis at Messene) |author=Elliott, T. |accessdate=December 30, 2024 1:36 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

Brady Kiesling says:

Jul 17, 2024 08:16 AM

The Pausanias reference is to a different Limnatis sanctuary, https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570120

Brady Kiesling says:

Jul 17, 2024 08:22 AM

On second thought, https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570120 may conflate two distinct sanctuaries, one at Volimos and the other possibly at Proph. Ilias chapel, https://topostext.org/place/371222SLim and https://topostext.org/place/370223SArt . It's complicated...