Capo Testa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.L. Dyson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.L. Dyson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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A promontory on the northern coast of Sardinia. It is probably to be identified with the "Errebantion Akron" mentioned by Ptolemy.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/471918
41.23333, 9.13333
- Associated Modern Locations:
- GeoNames location of modern Capo Testa (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
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- Less than certain: Erbentium (Akkadian, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Errebantion Akron (Akkadian, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Capo Testa part of (physical/topographic) Sardinia (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed quarry located on Capo Testa (unspecified date range)
cape, promontory
- Data Source:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 48 B1 Errebantion Akron
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Capo Testa?
S.L. Dyson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Capo Testa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/471918> [accessed: 05 October 2024]
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