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Cosa

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: W.V. Harris

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Fentress, Tom Elliott

Last modified Jul 27, 2020 10:40 AM — History

tags: dare:major=1, limestone, polygonal masonry, dare:feature=major settlement, extant remains, dare:ancient=1, colonia Latina

A Latin colony in south Etruria founded ca. 273 B.C.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413107

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
42.4105651, 11.2858448

Locations:

OSM location of city wall (330 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Cosa (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
Κόσαι (Kosai: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)

Cosa makes connections with:

Cosa part of (analytical) Ager Cosanus survey area (unspecified date range)
Cosa connection Via Aemilia Scauri (unspecified date range)
Cosa connection Via Aurelia (unspecified date range)

Cosa receives connections from:

Forum of Cosa at Cosa (330 BC - AD 640)
Villa Marittima della Tagliata near Cosa (unspecified date range)
Portus Cosanus part of (physical/topographic) Cosa (unspecified date range)
Arx of Cosa at Cosa (330 BC - AD 300)

Place type:
wall (of a city), city wall, settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 A4 Cosa

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ansedonia

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Suggested citation:
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Fentress, and Tom Elliott, 'Cosa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413107> [accessed: 07 August 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413107 |title=Places: 413107 (Cosa) |author=Harris, W. |accessdate=August 7, 2020 6:43 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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