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Laconica

a Pleiades name resource

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Romanized Name(s):
Laconica

Name as attested:

Laconica

Language:
Latin

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

Plin HN (Mayhoff: PHI) 2.243.6

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

According to Yves Lafond writing in New Pauly, the Latin Laconica is more commonly attested than the variant Laconia.

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