Monte Amiata
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 24, 2021 10:35 AM
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History
tags:
cinnabar,
mine, quarry
Monte Amiata is a lava dome located about 20 km northwest of Lake Bolsena in Italy.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/703739111
42.8875147, 11.6232935
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Monte Amiata (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Monte Amiata (Italian, modern)
- Monte Amiata part of (analytical) Val d'Orcia (modern)
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mountain, mine
Pleiades
Cinnabar was mined at Monte Amiata in antiquity.
Jeffrey Becker, 'Monte Amiata: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/703739111> [accessed: 16 April 2024]
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