Kothon
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Heidrun Wiesenmüller
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Last modified
Apr 28, 2022 08:30 AM
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History
tags:
Ba'al
The so-called "Kothon" is a large, rectangular, artificial pool dating to the Punic period of Sicily and located on the island of Motya. Originally interpreted as an artificial port basin, recent research reinterpets it as a freshwater basin with functions sacred to the god Ba'al and constituting the central component of a large sanctuary.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/386176625
37.864674, 12.465828
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Kothon (750 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Kothon located at Motya (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center), port
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Heidrun Wiesenmüller, 'Kothon: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/386176625> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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