Matara
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 26, 2016 10:10 AM
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History
A modern city of Sri Lanka whence a hoard of ancient coins (now in the British museum) that included locally minted, late Roman imitations.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50124
5.952062, 80.510826
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location of modern Matara (30478) (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Matara connection Taprobane/Palaisimoundou/Salike (island) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Matara
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Matara, SRI
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Matara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50124> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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