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Porta Marina tower of Poseidonia/Paestum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Feb 01, 2017 02:42 PM — History

tags: gate, tower, extant remains

The so-called Porta Marina of Paestum is a gate in the Hellenistic fortifications and is located along a main street axis leading to the port of the city.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/828808246

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.4211453, 14.9963773

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of tower at Porta Marina (550 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Porta Marina tower of Poseidonia/Paestum makes connections with:

Porta Marina tower of Poseidonia/Paestum located at Poseidonia/Paestum (unspecified date range)

Porta Marina tower of Poseidonia/Paestum receives connections from:

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Place type:
fort, tower (deprecated)

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Porta Marina tower of Poseidonia/Paestum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/828808246> [accessed: 21 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/828808246 |title=Places: 828808246 (Porta Marina tower of Poseidonia/Paestum) |author=Becker, J., T. Elliott |accessdate=November 21, 2024 7:11 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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