Modoutou Emporion
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
Sep 24, 2024 11:20 AM
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History
Ptolemy places the "Modoutoi" in the northern part of ancient Sri Lanka, and provides coordinates for a "Modoutou emporion". Tentatively following Berthelot, BAtlas places the emporion in the vicinity of modern Mullaitivu.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50139
9.213943, 80.776299
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 29819 (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Μοδούτου ἐμπόριον (Modoutou Emporion: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Μοδοῦτοι (Modoutoi: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Less than certain: முல்லைத்தீவு (Mullaittīvu: Tamil, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Modoutou Emporion located on Sri Lanka (30 BC - AD 300)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Modoutou Emporion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Mullaitivu? SRI
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Modoutou Emporion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50139> [accessed: 17 January 2025]
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