Hypsa(s) (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 B3 Hypsa(s) fl.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462255
37.6852683521, 12.9352057329
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Fiume Belice (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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river, drainage
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 B3 Hypsa(s) fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Belice
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Hypsa(s) (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462255> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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Not sure what you can do about it, but Polybius 9.27.3 puts the Hypsas river very specifically next to Agrigento, e.g. 37.3028 ,13.5651, hitting the sea as Fiume San Leone at 37.2657,13.5789. Ptolemaeus 3.4.5 agrees. Only Livy places it on the Selinous side of Herakleia Minoa. So either there are two Hypsas rivers or more likely the Italian communis opinio loyally follows Pliny.