Historical place profile
Trypitos
A small Hellenistic town excavated on the Trypitos promontory E of Siteia, Lasithi Crete. It is probably to be identified with Polichna, attested in ancient literary sources.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:590001
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:590001
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.198677, 26.129753
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A small Hellenistic town excavated on the Trypitos promontory E of Siteia, Lasithi Crete. It is probably to be identified with Polichna, attested in ancient literary sources.
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 60 F2 Polichna?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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