Drepanon (station)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Nov 22, 2022 06:23 AM
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History
A road station mentioned in ancient sources somewhere on the southwestern coast of Cyrenaica. It is possibly to be located in the area of modern Ras Carcura in Libya.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373782
31.4800895, 20.0069405
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: GeoNames location of Ra’s Kurkūrah (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: DARMC location 731 (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Drepanon (330 BC - AD 300)
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station (road or coastal)
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 B2 Drepanon
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ras Carcura?
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Drepanon (station): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373782> [accessed: 03 December 2024]
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