Thapsus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.B. Hitchner
Creators: R.B. Hitchner
Contributors:
DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 16, 2024 01:19 PM
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History
An ancient settlement and port, located at modern Ras Dimass in the Tunisian municipality of Bekalta (Monastir). Habitation at the site dates to at least the 6th century BCE and continued through the Byzantine and into the Islamic period, but it appears that the main settlement itself relocated to Bekalta in medieval times.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/324827
35.6213685746, 11.0427093523
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 15113 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Imagery Location of Thapsus Amphitheater (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM Location: Monumental complex and baths (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Thapsus (330 BC - AD 640)
- None
- Amphitheatre of Thapsus located at Thapsus (unspecified date range)
settlement, amphitheatre, amphitheater, port, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 33 H1 Thapsus
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ras-Dimas
R.B. Hitchner, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Thapsus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/324827> [accessed: 20 April 2025]
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