Ptolemais/Barkes Limen
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 08, 2018 06:01 AM
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History
An ancient capital of Cyrenaica, Ptolemais was probably named after Ptolemy III Euergetes. The city was founded in either the seventh or sixth century BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373879
32.70947, 20.950756
- DARMC location 5613 (750 BC - AD 640)
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640)
- Barkes Limen (750 BC - 30 BC)
- Ptolemais (750 BC - AD 640)
- Ptolemais/Barkes Limen connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
- Hippodrome at Ptolemais/Barkes Limen at Ptolemais/Barkes Limen (unspecified date range)
settlement, port
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 B1 Ptolemais/Barkes Limen
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tolmeta/Tulmeitia
D.J. Mattingly, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Ptolemais/Barkes Limen: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373879> [accessed: 16 January 2021]
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