Palike
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).
Last modified
Dec 15, 2020 07:11 AM
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History
An ancient settlement in central east Sicily, atop the Rocchicella, which included a sanctuary to the Divine Palikoi (pair of boiling lakes) within a grotto found on the hillside.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465970
37.329954, 14.697361
- Representative Locations:
- Hestiaterion, at Grotto of the Divine Palikoi, Rocchicella di Mineo, Sicily (750 BC - AD 850) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Area archeologica di Palikè (Italian, modern)
- Παλική (Palike: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Palike connection Palikoi/Palicorum Stagna (unspecified date range)
- Palike connection Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center), settlement, architectural complex
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 Palike
Town in central E Sicily, close to Palikon Limne (called Palicorum Stagna in Barrington Atlas)
R.J.A. Wilson, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Perry Scalfano, and Tom Elliott, 'Palike: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465970> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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