Kaiadas Spelaion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 29, 2021 08:38 AM
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History
The Kaiadas cave is located near modern Trypi in the Peloponnese. Ancient testimony identifies it as a place of execution used by the ancient Spartans. Exploration in the modern era identified a significant number of skeletal remains, but these have not been effectively dated.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570321
37.095513, 22.340541
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Cave of Caiada (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 C3 Kaiadas Spelaion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: prison cave at Trypi
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kaiadas Spelaion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570321> [accessed: 02 February 2025]
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