Pachynum (promontory)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 29, 2022 05:18 PM
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History
A promontory of extreme southeastern Sicily.
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/462405
36.67065, 15.130533
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Capo Passero (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Capo Pachino (Italian, modern)
- Capo Passero (Italian, modern)
- Πάχυνος ἄκρα (Pachynos Akra: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Pachynum Pr. (550 BC - AD 640)
- None
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None
cape, promontory
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 G5 Pachynum Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Capo Passero
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pachynum (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462405> [accessed: 02 April 2025]
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