Laureion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.S. Traill
Creators: J.S. Traill
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 22, 2022 04:07 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
37.7242978144, 23.9871130055
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (unspecified date range)
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- Laureion (unspecified date range)
- None
- Aulon part of (regional) Laureion (unspecified date range)
- Mine of Laureion part of (regional) Laureion (unspecified date range)
- Mine of Laureion part of (regional) Laureion (unspecified date range)
- Bambideios part of (regional) Laureion (unspecified date range)
region, map label location
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 59 C3 Laureion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Laureion region and silver mines.
J.S. Traill, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, Sean Gillies, and Ryan Horne, 'Laureion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580010> [accessed: 30 September 2022]
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