Opone
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 22, 2024 04:15 PM
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History
Opone, mentioned in the first-century A.D. Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, was a trading center located in the Horn of Africa, likely in the area of present day Hafun, Somalia.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39403
10.4160905, 51.2760513
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern Hafun, Somalia (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Opone (30 BC - AD 300)
- ἐμπόριον Ὀπώνη (emporion Opone: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
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station (road or coastal), settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 D3 Opone
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Hafun main or west side site (S side of peninsula) SOM
D.T. Potts, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Opone: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39403> [accessed: 28 March 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39403 |title=Places: 39403 (Opone) |author=Potts, D. |accessdate=March 28, 2025 9:55 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}
