Lekton/Lectum
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
Jun 07, 2018 08:53 PM
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History
The Lekton promontory (modern Cape Baba or Baba Burnu) is the the westernmost point of Asia Minor.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550691
39.47832135, 26.06330945
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Cape Baba (modern)
- GeoNames location of Baba Burnu (modern)
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- Λεκτόν (Lekton: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 300)
- promunturium Lectum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Lekton/Lectum abuts Aegaeum Mare (unspecified date range)
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cape, promontory
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 C3 Lekton Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bababurnu
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Ryan Horne, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Lekton/Lectum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550691> [accessed: 27 June 2022]
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