Capotes (mountain)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T.B. Mitford Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T.B. Mitford Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 08, 2021 07:17 PM
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History
A mountain that Pliny claims Licinius Mucianus identified as the source of the Euphrates. Per T.B. Mitford in BAtlas, it is probably to be identified with modern Kurtlu Tepe.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/628948
39.863205, 38.890095
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Kurtlu Tepe (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Capotes mons (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Cengerli located on Capotes (mountain) (unspecified date range)
mountain
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 64 H1 Capotes? M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kurtlu Tepe
T.B. Mitford, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Capotes (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/628948> [accessed: 14 June 2025]
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