Historical place profile
Pharis
Pharis or Phare was an ancient site in Laconia located in the Spartan plain along the route leading from Amyclae to the coast. It was abandoned by Pausanias' day. Shipley ventures a tentative identification with the area of modern Vapheio where there is evidence for a Bronze Age settlement with tholos tomb.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570591
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570591
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 37.022801, 22.461137
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Pharis or Phare was an ancient site in Laconia located in the Spartan plain along the route leading from Amyclae to the coast. It was abandoned by Pausanias' day. Shipley ventures a tentative identification with the area of modern Vapheio where there is evidence for a Bronze Age settlement with tholos tomb.
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 C3 Pharis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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