Mousopallis
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
Apr 06, 2026 02:56 PM
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History
Attested by Ptolemy, who makes it a metropolis, BAtlDir treated Mousopallis as an unlocated "inland settlement in Mysore" based on Ptolemy's listing it under the surprising heading "inland cities of piratical men". Without addressing this interesting phrase, Mohan Reddy 2001 asserts strongly that Mousopallis should be identified with the ancient-to-medieval port at Motupalli on India's east coast, an assertion that Dayalan 2019 passes over in silence.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50693
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Mousopallis (30 BC - AD 300)
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None
unlocated, settlement
- Evidence:
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- See Also:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 Mousopallis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: inland settlement in Mysore
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Mousopallis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50693> [accessed: 15 May 2026]
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