Turris Libisonis
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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May 19, 2023 01:30 PM
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History
A settlement of northwestern Sardinia, located at the mouth of the Mannu River. The site served as a port in Phoenician, Carthaginian, and Roman phases of occupation. The modern Porto Torres stands on the site, about 10 miles distant from Sassari.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472035
40.837236006, 8.39566221421
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Area Archeologica di Turris Libisonis (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ad Turrim Libysonis (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Porto Torres (Italian, modern)
- Πύργος Λιβίσσωνος (Pyrgos Libissonos: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Tvrribvs (Turribus: Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Turris Libisonis (330 BC - AD 640)
- Turris Libyssonis (Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Turris Libisonis connection Sardinia (island) (unspecified date range)
- Annuagras next place in route Turris Libisonis (unspecified date range)
settlement, port, archaeological site
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 48 A2 Turris Libisonis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Porto Torres. W. Smith, quoting Pliny 3.12.17, suggests that the site was one of the more substantial towns of Roman Sardinia.
S.L. Dyson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Turris Libisonis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472035> [accessed: 11 March 2025]
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