Meninx (settlement)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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A harbor settlement (in the vicinity of modern El Kantara) in the southern part of the Tunisian island of Djerba (ancient Meninx/Lotophagitis/Girba).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344439
33.68790728, 10.9228341261
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Meninx (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Meninx (settlement) communicates with Causeway connecting Meninx (Gerba) to mainland (unspecified date range)
- Meninx (settlement) located on Meninx/Lotophagitis/Girba (island) (unspecified date range)
- Meninx amphitheater located at Meninx (settlement) (unspecified date range)
settlement, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 35 C1 Meninge
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bordj el-Kantara TUN
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Meninx (settlement): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344439> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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