Herakleous? Limen
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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).
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Dec 08, 2021 12:05 PM
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History
The Herakleous Limen, mentioned by Ptolemy, was an ancient bay or anchorage on the island of Sardinia, probably to be identified with the modern Porto Malfatano, which is located on the southern coast of the island between the Capo Malfatano and the Capo Spartivento.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/471942
38.885163, 8.81414
- Central Point:
- Imagery Location of center point of Porto Malfatano (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Less than certain: Ἡρακλέους λιμήν (Herakleous Limen: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Porto Malfatano (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Stagno di Malfatano (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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bay
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 48 A4 Herakleous? Limen
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Porto Malfatano
S.L. Dyson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Herakleous? Limen: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/471942> [accessed: 16 February 2025]
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