Historical place profile
Abai
Abai was an ancient town in Phocis, said to have been founded by the Argive Abas. It has been identified with a hilltop, fortified archaeological site known as Palaiokhori, near modern Exarchos. The site of an oracular sanctuary of Apollo and Artemis associated with Abai in ancient literature has been identified at nearby Kallipodi.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:540582
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:540582
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.580202, 22.917061
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Abai was an ancient town in Phocis, said to have been founded by the Argive Abas. It has been identified with a hilltop, fortified archaeological site known as Palaiokhori, near modern Exarchos. The site of an oracular sanctuary of Apollo and Artemis associated with Abai in ancient literature has been identified at nearby Kallipodi.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 55 D3 Abai
Source and reuse
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