Timpone del Ponto
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
Nov 21, 2025 01:49 PM
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History
The archaeological site of Timpone del Ponto in Lucania indicates occupation from the Bronze Age through to the the Hellenistic period. The built fortifications of the Hellenistic period command a narrow point of the Sinni river valley between the hills of Coppola and Colobraro.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452478
40.17794, 16.44657
- Representative Locations:
- GPS Location of Timpone del Ponto (330 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 15 meters.
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- Timpone del Ponto (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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settlement (fortified)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 46 D1 Timpone del Ponto
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Timpone del Ponto
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Timpone del Ponto: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452478> [accessed: 12 December 2025]
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Better coordinates 40.1779,16.4466in MPhil Thesis of Brett Myers at https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/20088