Historical place profile
Ophryneion
Ophryneion was an ancient city of the northern Troad. It lay between Rhoteum and Dardanus. The site is located about 1.5 km north-east of the village of İntepe (previously known as Erenköy) in Çanakkale Province, Turkey.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:550787
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:550787
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 40.024706, 26.337821
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Ophryneion was an ancient city of the northern Troad. It lay between Rhoteum and Dardanus. The site is located about 1.5 km north-east of the village of İntepe (previously known as Erenköy) in Çanakkale Province, Turkey.
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 C1 Ophryneion
Source and reuse
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Research path
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