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Menainon

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Ancient place name for the site also called Menai, attested on coinage and in the literary sources.

Romanized Name(s):
Menainon, Menaenum

Name as attested:

Μεναινον

Language:
Greek (ancient)

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC) (confident)
Roman Early Empire-Late Antique (30 BC – AD 640) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

Diod. Sic. 11.78.5
Gabrici, E. 1927. La monetazione del bronzo nella Sicilia antica. Palermo. pp. 145-146

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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