Puteolanus Sinus/Crater
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/433059
40.8052025757, 14.3334358932
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (330 BC - AD 300)
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- Bay of Naples (English, modern)
- Crater (330 BC - AD 300)
- Golfo di Napoli (Italian, modern)
- Gulf of Naples (English, modern)
- κρατῆρ (Krater: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- sinus Puteolanus (Puteolanus Sinus: Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Puteolanus Sinus/Crater connection Internum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Puteolanus Sinus/Crater connection Surrentum (unspecified date range)
- Puteolanus Sinus/Crater connection Vesuvius (volcano) (unspecified date range)
- Aenaria/Pithekoussai (island) connection Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
- Capreae (island) connection Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
- Herculis Petra connection Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
- Portus Iulius communicates with Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
- Prochyta (island) connection Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
- Sarnus (river) flows into Puteolanus Sinus/Crater (unspecified date range)
water, open
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F4 Puteolanus Sinus/Crater
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Golfo di Napoli
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, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/433059> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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