Chelonophagoi
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf
Creators: M. Roaf
Contributors:
Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Mary E. Downs, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 09, 2013 11:52 AM
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History
Pliny the Elder discussed the Chelonophagoi, an ancient tribe that subsisted on turtle flesh and covered their houses with the turtles' shells, in the context of his excursus on the Persian Gulf.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/30224
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None
unlocated, people, tribe
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 3 Chelonophagoi
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: tribe
M. Roaf, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Mary E. Downs, and Tom Elliott, 'Chelonophagoi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/30224> [accessed: 17 July 2019]
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