Tas-Silġ
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 27, 2023 01:03 PM
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History
tags:
megalithic,
extant remains
A hilltop on Malta that is the locus of multi-period settlement and religious activity from the Neolithic period to late antiquity.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/601235773
35.8439940769, 14.5536321803
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tas-Silġ (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery location of Tas-Silġ (2500 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- CIGS location of Tas-Silġ (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Tas-Silġ (Tas-Silg: Maltese, modern)
- Tas-Silġ connection Melita/Malta (island) (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center), findspot, place of finding, settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Tas-Silġ: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/601235773> [accessed: 18 April 2025]
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