Cartana/Karnasa/Tetrogonis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified
Feb 15, 2025 06:20 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
34.6428571429, 67.5
- Representative Locations:
- GANE Location 7588 (1200 BC - AD 1918) accuracy: +/- 7620 meters.
- GANE Location 11942 (330 BC - AD 226) accuracy: +/- 4572 meters.
- Barrington Atlas location (30 BC - AD 300)
- GANE Location 7599 (1200 BC - AD 2000) accuracy: +/- 7620 meters.
- GANE Location 51446 (AD 1918 - AD 2000) accuracy: +/- 3302 meters.
- GANE Location 68380 (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 12192 meters.
- GANE Location 61834 (330 BC - 140 BC) accuracy: +/- 7620 meters.
- GANE Location 51444 (AD 1918 - AD 2000) accuracy: +/- 3302 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
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, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, R. Talbert, 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: 16 February 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)?