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Bema

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Chris de Lisle

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Mar 20, 2024 12:41 PM — History

A speaker's platform erected on the eastern side of the Athenian Agora by or for Roman generals in the late second or early first centuries BC.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/935360966

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.975125, 23.723903

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- ToposText Location: Bema (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- τὸ βῆμα (tò bêma: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)

Bema makes connections with:

Bema located in Agora of Athens (330 BC - AD 300)
Bema located west of Stoa of Attalos (330 BC - 30 BC)

Bema receives connections from:

None

Place type:
platform

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Chris de Lisle, and Tom Elliott, 'Bema: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/935360966> [accessed: 21 November 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/935360966 |title=Places: 935360966 (Bema) |author=de Lisle, C. |accessdate=November 21, 2024 9:24 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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