Plemmyrium (promontory)
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462452
37.0230334013, 15.3192879161
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM Location of the modern Punta Castelluccio (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Less than certain: OSM Location of the modern Faro di Capo Murro di Porco (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
-
- Plemmyrium Pr. (550 BC - AD 300)
- Plemmyrium (promontory) part of (physical/topographic) Sicilia (island) (modern)
-
None
cape, promontory, lighthouse
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 G4 Plemmyrium Pr.
R.J.A. Wilson, in BAtlDir page 720 (see Plemmyrium Pr.), writes: "Punta della Maddalena". He places the label on the map (BAtlas 47 G4 at the southeastern point of the peninsula, i.e. where the modern Faro di Capo Murro di Porco lighthouse is located. E. Olshausen, in New Pauly (see "Plemmyrium") writes "the north cape of the peninsula of Maddalena to the south of Syracusae, today Punta della Maddalena." Unfortunately, modern gazetteers of Sicily do not use the nomenclature "Punta della Maddalena," nor do they indicate the location of the former church of Mary Magdalene that has given the entire peninsula its name. Olshausen's description seems to refer to what the gazetteers call the "Punta Castellucio".
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Plemmyrium (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462452> [accessed: 03 December 2024]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462452 |title=Places: 462452 (Plemmyrium (promontory)) |author=Wilson, R. |accessdate=December 3, 2024 1:33 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}