Laureion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.S. Traill
Creators: J.S. Traill
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Chris de Lisle, 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
Jan 12, 2025 04:26 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.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580010
37.7242978144, 23.9871130055
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 465 meters.
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- Laureion (unspecified date range)
- Laureion part of (regional) Attica (unspecified date range)
- Aulon part of (regional) Laureion (unspecified date range)
- Bambideios part of (regional) Laureion (unspecified date range)
- Maroneia 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)
- Mine of Laureion 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)
- Mine of Laureion 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, Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, Sean Gillies, and Ryan Horne, 'Laureion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580010> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580010 |title=Places: 580010 (Laureion) |author=Traill, J. |accessdate=March 26, 2025 7:20 am |publisher=Pleiades}}
