Portus Herculis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: W.V. Harris Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 02, 2026 12:21 PM
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History
Portus Herculis is located on the eastern side of the Monte Argentario peninsula, about 40 km south-east of Grosseto and about 7 km south-west of Orbetello. and about 12 km from Porto Santo Stefano. The site was in use as a port during the Etruscan, Roman, and Late Antique phases of occupation. It is included on the Peutinger map and in the Itinerarium Maritimum.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/403260
42.394886, 11.203981
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18802 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Ἡρακλέους λιμὴν (Irakléous limín: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Porto Ercole (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Port̄ Hercvl(is) (Portus Herculis: Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Port’ Ercole (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Portus Herculis part of (physical/topographic) Argentarius (mountain) (unspecified date range)
- Portus Herculis part of (regional) Italia, Regio VII (unspecified date range)
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settlement, port
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 41 E5 Portus Herculis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Port’ Ercole
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Portus Herculis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/403260> [accessed: 15 July 2026]
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