Historical place profile
Olmones
An ancient village (kome) of Boeotia, mentioned by Pausanias and Stephanus of Byzantium. It is generally identified with a paliokastro located 1km north-northeast of modern Pavlon (1.75km south-southwest of the site of Hyettos); however, the ToposText editors note a recent proposal that it be identified with "unexcavated remains at Monachou-Paliochori 4.3 km E of Hyettos."
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:540980
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:540980
- Place type
- ruin, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.541841, 23.097701
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient village (kome) of Boeotia, mentioned by Pausanias and Stephanus of Byzantium. It is generally identified with a paliokastro located 1km north-northeast of modern Pavlon (1.75km south-southwest of the site of Hyettos); however, the ToposText editors note a recent proposal that it be identified with "unexcavated remains at Monachou-Paliochori 4.3 km E of Hyettos."
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 E3 Olmones
Source and reuse
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Research path
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