Temple of Athena Skiras on Salamis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.S. Traill Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J.S. Traill Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 14, 2021 04:45 PM
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History
This sanctuary, reported by Herodotus, is thought to have been located on the modern Cape Arapis in the northeast part of the island of Salamis, just north of the modern naval base. It is not to be confused with the Temple of Athena Skiras in Phaleron, reported by Pausanias.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579886
37.983355, 23.537097
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 21247 (550 BC - AD 300)
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- ἱρὸν Ἀθηναίης Σκιράδος (Hieron Athenais Skirados: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Temple of Athena Skiras on Salamis located on Salamis (island) (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 59 B3 Athena Skiras, T.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Arapis
J.S. Traill, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Temple of Athena Skiras on Salamis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579886> [accessed: 07 June 2023]
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