Smintheion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Rob Chavez
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 11, 2021 10:49 PM
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History
tags:
dare:major=0,
Ionic,
extant remains,
Proconessian marble,
dare:ancient=1,
dare:feature=settlement,
Apollo,
temple
Homer mentions the temple of Apollo Smintheus as the shrine where Chryses was priest. The second century B.C. remains of an Ionic sanctuary with an adjacent town are located in the southwestern Troad near modern Gülpinar.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550892
39.5362070998, 26.1177414953
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Smintheion (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Gülpınar (Gulpinar: Turkish, modern)
- Smintheion (750 BC - AD 300)
- Smintheion connection Hamaxitos (unspecified date range)
- Smintheion part of (regional) Troas (region) (unspecified date range)
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None
sanctuary (religious center), settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 C2 Smintheion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Külahlı, Gülpınar
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, and Rob Chavez, 'Smintheion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550892> [accessed: 19 December 2024]
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