Laureion
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).
Last modified
Dec 18, 2020 07:42 PM
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History
A mining region of Attika famous in antiquity for its silver mines. These mines were one of the chief sources of revenue for the Athenian state.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580010
37.712252, 24.039891
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
- Laureion (unspecified date range)
- None
- Mine of Laureion part of (regional) Laureion (unspecified date range)
region
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 59 C3 Laureion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Laureion region and silver mines.
J.S. Traill, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Laureion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580010> [accessed: 17 January 2021]
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