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Imagery Location of Asteria Insula

a Pleiades location resource

Creators: Arthur De Graauw
Contributors: Tom Elliott
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Last modified Sep 13, 2022 09:10 AM — History
Islet located between modern Ithaca and Cephalonia

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island, port

{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 20.598193, 38.431566 ] }

Unknown

Certain

Google Earth and GeoEye Imagery 2012

representative

  • Archaic (Greco-Roman; 750-550 BCE/BC) (confident)

Pleiades

Probably today's Daskalion-Asteris Island. It is noted that Homer's twin ports are probably not on Asteris but at Fiskardo on nearby Cephalonia Island (according to Cuisenier, 2003).