Arsinoe/Taucheira
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 05, 2024 08:42 PM
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History
Arsinoe/Taucheira (modern Tocra) may have originally been a Greek foundation that was part of Pentapolis of Cyrenaica. It eventually became a Roman colony and, by the time of Justinian, was fortified.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373736
32.5363993333, 20.5672976667
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 3367 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 34899 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Less than certain: Arsinoe/Taucheira part of (administrative) Barke (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Arsinoe/Taucheira part of (administrative) Creta et Cyrene (Roman province) (30 BC - AD 300)
- Arsinoe/Taucheira founded by Cyrene (750 BC - 550 BC)
- Arsinoe/Taucheira part of (regional) Pentapolis (unspecified date range)
- Arsinoe/Taucheira part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
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settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 B1 Arsinoe/Taucheira
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tocra
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Arsinoe/Taucheira: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373736> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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