Chil Zena
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
Oct 14, 2024 12:35 PM
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History
A mountainous outcropping located to the west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. A flight of forty stone steps leads to the top of the outcropping. The bilingual inscription of the third century BCE known as the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription is found here.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/787408099
31.6154019, 65.6636369
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Chilzina and the Forty Steps of Kandahar (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'Chil Zena: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/787408099> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/787408099 |title=Places: 787408099 (Chil Zena) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 26, 2025 5:57 am |publisher=Pleiades}}
