Pandiruppu
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
Oct 04, 2025 09:36 AM
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History
A settlement in eastern Sri Lanka that was reported in the early 20th century to have been the findspot of one, and maybe a few more, Roman bronze coins of the fourth century. Walburg suspects that this reported provenance may be incorrect.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50203
7.4263926, 81.8169319
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Pandiruppu (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Pandiruppu (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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- Pandirippu (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Pandiruppu located on Sri Lanka (unspecified date range)
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findspot, place of finding, find place, settlement, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Pandirippu
BAtlas included Pandirippu, marking it as "a modern settlement associated with an exceptional cultural feature beyond the area of Greek and Roman settlement."
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Pandiruppu: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50203> [accessed: 11 May 2026]
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