Altar of the Twelve Gods
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Chris de Lisle Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Chris de Lisle Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 26, 2024 12:44 PM
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History
A rectangular peribolos with an altar in the centre, built in 522/1 BC, destroyed in the Persian Sack of 480/79 BC, and rebuilt in the late 5th century BC. It was the central milestone from which distances in Attica were measured. The remains are now mostly underneath the Athens-Piraeus Electric Railway.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/676120270
37.9757910795, 23.722756308
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- ToposText Location: Altar of the Twelve Gods (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Altar of the 12 Gods (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Altar of the Twelve Gods (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- τῶν δώδεκα θεῶν βωμὸν (tōn dṓdeka theōn bōmòn: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 300)
- Altar of the Twelve Gods located in Agora of Athens (550 BC - AD 300)
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Chris de Lisle, Catherine Bouras, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Tom Elliott, 'Altar of the Twelve Gods: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/676120270> [accessed: 27 April 2024]
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