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Puteolanus Sinus/Crater

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: N. Purcell

Contributors: Sean Gillies, Perry Scalfano, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Nov 20, 2019 10:28 PM — History

Also called the Bay of Naples, the Puteolanus Sinus is a gulf located on the southwestern coast of Italy. It opens west to the Mediterranean Sea and is bordered on the east by Mt. Vesuvius and the south by the Sorrentine Peninsula.

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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/433059

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.73294072, 14.3498821

Locations:

Barrington Atlas location (330 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Crater (330 BC - AD 300)
Puteolanus Sinus (330 BC - AD 300)

Puteolanus Sinus/Crater makes connections with:

Puteolanus Sinus/Crater connection Internum Mare (unspecified date range)
Puteolanus Sinus/Crater connection Surrentum (unspecified date range)
Puteolanus Sinus/Crater connection Vesuvius M. (unspecified date range)

Puteolanus Sinus/Crater receives connections from:

Capreae (island) connection Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
Herculis Petra connection Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
Aenaria/Pithekoussai (island) connection Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
Prochyta (island) connection Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
Sarnus (river) connection Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)

Place type:
water, open

References:

Evidence:

Str. (Meineke: Perseus) 5.4.3

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F4 Puteolanus Sinus/Crater

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Golfo di Napoli

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
N. Purcell, Sean Gillies, Perry Scalfano, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Puteolanus Sinus/Crater: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/433059> [accessed: 04 August 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/433059 |title=Places: 433059 (Puteolanus Sinus/Crater) |author=Purcell, N. |accessdate=August 4, 2020 1:50 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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