Hypios (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
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History
A river mentioned in ancient sources. Modern scholars identify it with the lower/larger (Büyük) course of the modern Melen Çay (Buyukmelen), which drains the marshy Efteni Golü (much diminished from its pre-modern extent). Ancient people seem to have extended the "Hypios" name past the lake and up one of its tributaries, but scholarly opinion is divided as to whether this was the modern Ugursuyu/Ogursu/Akarsu (Robert 1980, whence Foss in BAtlas) or the upper/smaller (Küçük) Melen Çayı (Strobel in New Pauly).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/844950
40.8772134801, 31.0572395384
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of the upper section of the modern Büyükmelen Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of a segment of the Büyükmelen Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Uncertain: OSM Location of the upper segment of the Küçük Melen Çayi (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of the last segment of the Büyükmelen Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of a segment of the Büyükmelen Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Less than certain: OSM Location of the lower course of the modern Ugursuyu stream (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Uncertain: OSM Location of the last segment of the Küçük Melen Çayi (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of a segment of the Büyükmelen Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Less than certain: OSM Location of the upper course of the modern Ugursuyu stream (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Uncertain: OSM Location of the middle segment of the Küçük Melen Çayi (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Büyükmelen Çayı (Turkish, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Ὕπιος πόταμος (Hypios potamos: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Hyppivm fl. (Hyppium flumen: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
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river, drainage
- Evidence:
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- See Also:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 86 A3 Hypios fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Büyük Melen Su / Akarsu.
As Strobel (New Pauly) misidentifies the ancient Daphnutis lake as the Efteni Gölü, rather than the Ulubat Gölü, which is much further south and west, the Foss/Robert speculations about the identification of the upper course of the Hypios have been given certainty = "less certain" and the Strobel conjecture certainty = "uncertain".
C. Foss, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Hypios (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/844950> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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