Historical place profile
Mostene
An ancient city of Lydia in Asia Minor is attested in literature and by coinage and inscriptions found at multiple locations. Its precise location is not known. BAtlas tentatively placed it (with a hollow symbol) "near [modern] Sancaklıbozköy". NPauly summarizes suggestions more broadly: "the eastern foot of Mount Sipylus near modern Çobanisa or Sancaklıboz or to the south of Thyateira or c. 40 km to the east of Magnesia [3] (modern Asartepe near Urganlı)"
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:550752
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:550752
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 38.535433, 27.547329
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient city of Lydia in Asia Minor is attested in literature and by coinage and inscriptions found at multiple locations. Its precise location is not known. BAtlas tentatively placed it (with a hollow symbol) "near [modern] Sancaklıbozköy". NPauly summarizes suggestions more broadly: "the eastern foot of Mount Sipylus near modern Çobanisa or Sancaklıboz or to the south of Thyateira or c. 40 km to the east of Magnesia [3] (modern Asartepe near Urganlı)"
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 56 F5 Mostene
Source and reuse
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Research path
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