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).
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Dec 17, 2023 04:37 PM
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History
An ancient Phoenician settlement located in western Sardinia on a promontory in the Gulf of Oristano, just south of modern San Giovanni di Sinis. While it originates as a Punic or Carthaginian settlement ca. 700 BCE, it continued as a major town in Roman times.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472032
39.8748645059, 8.44100948641
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of modern Area archeologica di Tharros (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- San Giovanni di Sinis (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Tharros connection Sardinia (island) (unspecified date range)
- Baths of the Old Convent, Tharros located at Tharros (unspecified date range)
settlement, archaeological site
- Evidence:
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- Related:
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- Arachne Tharros Oristano (Provinz) (Thàrras / Tarrae), Italien
- DARE 22706
- DARMC 253
- DBUnico MIBACT ID 106489: Area archeologica di Tharros
- TGN 7003518: Tharros, Rovine di (deserted settlement)
- TM GEO ID 22215: Tharros (San Giovanni di Sinis)
- Wikidata Q736689: Tharros
- iDAI.gazetteer 2107548: Tharros
- vici.org 7846: Tharros
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, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Tharros: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472032> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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