You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Plataean Tumulus (Marathon)

Plataean Tumulus (Marathon)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Brady Kiesling

Last modified Jun 05, 2023 11:42 AM — History

A tumulus at Marathon associated with the Boeotian Plataeans. Marinatos identified the mound in 1970. It rises to a height of about 3 meters.

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/774102407

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.1232299, 23.949001

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tumulus of the Plataeans (550 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- τάφος Πλαταιεῦσι (taphos Plataieusi: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)

Plataean Tumulus (Marathon) makes connections with:

None

Plataean Tumulus (Marathon) receives connections from:

None

Place type:
tumulus

References:

Evidence:

Paus. (Spiro: Perseus) 1.32.3

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Plataean Tumulus (Marathon): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/774102407> [accessed: 26 November 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/774102407 |title=Places: 774102407 (Plataean Tumulus (Marathon)) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=November 26, 2024 2:09 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

Personal tools

Plataean Tumulus (Marathon)