Tharros
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.L. Dyson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
An ancient Phoenician settlement located in western Sardinia on a promontory in the Gulf of Oristano, just south of modern San Giovanni di Sinis. While it originates as a Punic or Carthaginian settlement ca. 700 BCE, it continued as a major town in Roman times.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/472032
39.8748645059, 8.44100948641
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of modern Area archeologica di Tharros (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- San Giovanni di Sinis (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Tharros connection Sardinia (island) (unspecified date range)
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settlement, archaeological site
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Arachne 004395: Tharros Thàrras / Tarrae, Oristano (Provinz)
- Arkeosardinia Area urbana di Tharros
- BAtlas 48 A3 Tharros
- Ellis 2022
- ItAnt (Cuntz) 83
- Moscati 1993 27-36
- New Pauly Tharrus
- PECS (Perseus) THARROS Sardinia, Italy
- Sardegna Cultura Cabras, Area archeologica di Tharros
- Sitzia 2022
- ToposText Tarrai (Sardinia)
- Wikipedia (English) Tharros
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 48 A3 Tharros
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: S. Giovanni di Sinis
Smith 1857 (2.1135) emphasizes that the site is mentioned by Ptolemy as Tarrae or Tarras and also in the Antonine Itineraries, which place it 12 miles from Othoca.
S.L. Dyson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Tharros: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/472032> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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