Koryphas
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 08, 2025 09:26 AM
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History
Koryphas was a coastal settlement of Aeolis, located opposite Lesbos. The Mytilenaeans founded the settlement. Pliny the Elder mentions the site three times, including it in a comparative discussion of the quality of oysters sourced from various places in the Roman world.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550667
39.355929, 26.782977
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 10099 (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Corifanio (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Coryphas oppidum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Koryphas (330 BC - AD 300)
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 D3 Koryphas
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: near Keremköy
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Koryphas: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550667> [accessed: 17 May 2026]
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