Kainys (promontory)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 17, 2021 11:47 AM
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History
Modern Punta del Pezzo on the Calabrian coast of Italy, opposite Sicily and north of Rhegion. According to Strabo, the promontory was located near the Scyllaean rock, opposite the Pelorus promontory in Sicily.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452350
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cape, promontory
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 46 C5 Kainys Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Punta Pezzo/Torre del Cavallo
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kainys (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452350> [accessed: 30 November 2023]
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