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Bicum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Tom Elliott

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Mar 15, 2026 11:32 AM — History

A place in Mesopotamia listed by GeogRav. Its nature and location remain unknown. It may be equatable (thus RE) with a "Vicus" shown on the Peutinger map.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/399252081

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.986278, 38.213008

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Bicum (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)

Bicum makes connections with:

Bicum next place in route Barna (unspecified date range)
Less than certain: Bicum same as Vicus (unspecified date range)

Bicum receives connections from:

Daiara/Thiara next place in route Bicum (unspecified date range)

Place type:
unknown

References:

Evidence:

GeogRav (Schnetz) 2.13 (page 24) = Pinder 1860 page 80 number 2

See Further:

RE Bicum 2 (I. Benzinger)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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Suggested citation:
Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Bicum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/399252081> [accessed: 19 May 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/399252081 |title=Places: 399252081 (Bicum) |author=Elliott, T. |accessdate=May 19, 2026 3:58 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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