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Chelonophagoi

a Pleiades place resource

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 Aug 01, 2024 02:05 PM — 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.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/30224
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unlocated, people, tribe (historical cultural group)

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 3 Chelonophagoi

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: tribe


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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, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/30224> [accessed: 04 April 2025] 

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