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Arachthos

a Pleiades name resource

Creators: W.M. Murray

Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott

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Ancient Greek name of a river in Epirus (Greece).

Romanized Name(s):
Arachthos, Árachthos

Name as attested:

Ἄραχθος

Language:
Greek (ancient)

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Archaic (Greco-Roman; 750-550 BCE/BC) (confident, but inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
Classical (Greco-Roman; 550 BC-330 BC) (confident, but inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC) (confident, but inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 D3 Arachthos fl.

Details: