Sanctuary of Poseidon at Tainaron
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 20, 2022 09:27 PM
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History
A famous ancient sanctuary of Poseidon located at the southern end of the modern Mani peninsula of the Peloponnese. Literary and archaeological evidence indicate that the sanctuary featured a temple, a cave treated as a mouth of the underworld, and other structural and monumental components. It seems to have served as a sanctuary site for suppliants and a context for the formal manumission of enslaved persons.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/469183604
36.4019981673, 22.4873926264
- Central Point:
- Imagery Location of temple and church ruins (550 BC - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Imagery location of approximate centerpoint: "rectangular building" (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of so-called "Cave of Hades" (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Imagery location of rock-cut channel (road) (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Sanctuary of Poseidon at Tainaron located at Tainaron (settlement) (unspecified date range)
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church, building, sanctuary (religious center), ruin, cave, temple, road
Pleiades
Tom Elliott, 'Sanctuary of Poseidon at Tainaron: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/469183604> [accessed: 15 October 2024]
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