Historical place profile
Aphrodisias/Aphrodisia
A long-lived coastal settlement of the Peloponnese, mentioned by Pausanias and other authors. Its precise location has not been determined; however, it must have been relatively close to Boi(a)i, since it was one of the constituent poleis from which the latter was synoecized. The ToposText editors tentatively propose its localization at a now-vanished fortification north of Megali Spilia (and thus northwest of Neapolis).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:573101
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:573101
- Place type
- ruin, settlement, unlocated
- Coordinates
- 36.547000, 22.988000
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A long-lived coastal settlement of the Peloponnese, mentioned by Pausanias and other authors. Its precise location has not been determined; however, it must have been relatively close to Boi(a)i, since it was one of the constituent poleis from which the latter was synoecized. The ToposText editors tentatively propose its localization at a now-vanished fortification north of Megali Spilia (and thus northwest of Neapolis).
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 58 Aphrodisia(s)
Source and reuse
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Research path
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