Cartana/Karnasa/Tetrogonis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified
Feb 16, 2025 03:45 PM
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History
The site of Cartana/Karnasa/Tetrogonis remains unlocated, although scholars have advanced various theories as to its location.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60476
34.8223804, 67.8368338
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OMS Location: modern Bamian (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Bamyan (unspecified date range)
- Bāmiyān (1200 BC - AD 1918)
- Bāmyān (Modern Persian, 1200 BC - AD 2000)
- Cartana (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Cartana (Georgian, 330 BC - AD 226)
- Karnasa (30 BC - AD 300)
- Sahr-e Golġole (AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Tetragōnis (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 140 BC)
- Tetrogonis (30 BC - AD 300)
- Šahr-e Ġolġole (Modern Persian, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- None
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None
unlocated, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 Cartana/Karnasa/Tetrogonis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bamiyan? AFG
Tarn suggested that Cartana be located at Bamiyan while Cunningham supported the theory that Cartana-Tetragonis should be located at Begram. Fraser refutes Cunningham's assertion based on archaeological evidence from Begram.
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Cartana/Karnasa/Tetrogonis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60476> [accessed: 29 April 2025]
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Ideas from Pleaides conscenti on the likelihood of correlating http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60476/ with Bamiyan (viz. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/208)?