Leuke (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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May 24, 2022 01:59 PM
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History
Leuke, now Koufonísi, is a small, rocky island southeast of Crete that in antiquity was a center for the production of the purple dye derived from from the gastropod Murex trunculus.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589910
34.9373558212, 26.1359028531
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Koufonísi (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Leuke located on Leuke (island) (unspecified date range)
island, production center (manufacturing, fishing)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 F3 Leuke Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kouphonisi
J. Bennet, G. Reger, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Leuke (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589910> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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