Thapsacus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jul 08, 2024 10:45 AM
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History
The location of the ancient site of Thapsacus is no longer known, but it lay on the western bank of the Euphrates River.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674270
31.5, 44.5
- Representative Locations:
- Undetermined location (550 BC - AD 640)
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- Thapsacus (Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Thapsacus located on Euphrates (river) (unspecified date range)
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None
unlocated
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 68 Thapsacus
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: not between R. Sadjour and R. Khabour.
NB: There is an uncited reference in Geonames connecting the ruins at Jebel Khalid to Thapsacus that seems to reflect older scholarship rejected e.g., by Gawlikowski 1996.
J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Thapsacus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674270> [accessed: 22 December 2024]
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