Matrinos (river)
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).
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May 03, 2023 07:31 PM
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History
An ancient river of Picenum, mentioned by Strabo and Ptolemy, which is to be identified with the modern Terrente Piomba. The ancient Latin name is reflected in that of a coastal road station labeled on the Peutinger map (Macrinum), whence (correcting "c" to "t" after the Greek sources) BAtlas "Matrinus? fl."
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413198
42.5490593537, 13.9969268263
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Torrente Piomba (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Torrente Piomba (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 F3 Matrinus? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Piomba
W.V. Harris, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Matrinos (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413198> [accessed: 09 October 2024]
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