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Matara

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Sean Gillies, R. Talbert, D.T. Potts, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jun 11, 2024 10:19 AM — History
Matara, in Eritrea, is an archaeological site located along the coast road to Adulis and dating to pre-Aksumite or early Aksumite times. It is possibly to be identified as the Koloe mentioned in a Roman imperial source.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/403627899

14.675334944, 39.4256591657
    • Uncertain: Koloe (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
  • Less than certain: Matara same as Koloe (unspecified date range)
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settlement, archaeological site

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Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, R. Talbert, D.T. Potts, and Tom Elliott, 'Matara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/403627899> [accessed: 28 September 2024] 

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