Perimula (promontory)
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).
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Nov 14, 2023 03:27 PM
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History
Twice in the Natural History (books 6 and 9), Pliny the Elder describes Perimula (presumably cribbing Megasthenes) as a "promontory of India". Erdosy, in BAtlas, follows McCrindle 1926, who identifies it as the "projecting point of the island of Perimula or Perimuda, now called the island of Salsette" (i.e., the island now occupied by the modern city of Mumbai). Ptolemy and Aelian also record a "Perimoula", which various commentators have tried to place -- identified also with the feature in Pliny -- in the Gulf of Thailand, on the Malay peninsula, or on Sumatra.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50212
19.0981620302, 72.8595708643
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM Location: modern Salsette Island (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Περιμούλα (Perimoula: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Perimula, promunturium Indiae (Perimula promunturium: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Perimula Pr. (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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cape, promontory
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 C3 Perimula Pr.
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M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Perimula (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50212> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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