Tharros
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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Jun 07, 2018 02:56 PM
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History
An ancient Phoenician settlement located in western Sardinia on a promontory in the Gulf of Oristano. While it originates as a Punic or Carthaginian settlement ca. 700 BC it continued as a major town in Roman times.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472032
39.879432, 8.440249
- DARMC location 253 (750 BC - AD 640)
- Tharros connection Sardinia (island) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 48 A3 Tharros
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: S. Giovanni di Sinis
Smith 1857 (2.1135) emphasizes that the site is mentioned by Ptolemy as Tarrae or Tarras and also in the Antonine Itineraries, which place it 12 miles from Othoca.
S.L. Dyson, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, and R. Talbert, 'Tharros: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472032> [accessed: 12 December 2019]
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