Tylos (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts
Creators: D.T. Potts
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, R. Talbert, Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 12, 2025 11:10 AM
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History
tags:
pearl
Tylos is the ancient name for Bahrain, renowned in antiquity as a center of pearl trading.
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/932485
26.0096699518, 50.547172587
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 1860 meters.
- None
- Barbar Temples part of (physical/topographic) Tylos (island) (3000 BC - 1000 BC)
- Dilmun Burial Mounds connection Tylos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Qalat al-Bahrain connection Tylos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Saar Site located at Tylos (island) (3300 BC - 1400 BC)
- Thilouanoi located on Tylos (island) (unspecified date range)
island, map label location
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 95 C3 Tylos Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bahrain
D.T. Potts, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, R. Talbert, and Ryan Horne, 'Tylos (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/932485> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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