Trypitos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Aug 22, 2022 05:15 PM
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History
A small Hellenistic town excavated on the Trypitos promontory E of Siteia, Lasithi Crete. It is probably to be identified with Polichna, attested in ancient literary sources.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/590001
35.1986769994, 26.1297528815
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Trypitos (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARMC location 5558 (550 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
- GPS Location of Trypitos (330 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 15 meters.
- Trypitos part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
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settlement, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 F2 Polichna?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Petras: Trypitos
J. Bennet, G. Reger, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Trypitos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/590001> [accessed: 17 June 2025]
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