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Location:

  • Cyprus, Famagusta
  • geo:35.127377,33.947685
  • Location uncertain

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=32530

Annotations

According to Strabo - Book XIV, Chapter 6 : ...Teucer, the founder of Salamis in Cypros, first landed, having been banished, as they say, by his father Telamon. Then to a city Carpasia, .... Then to Arsinoê, a city and harbour.... 1

Sources:

The Geography of Strabo XIV.6, Loeb Classical Library edition, 1928 - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/14F*.html

References

  1. ↑The Geography of Strabo published in Vol. V of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1928 - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/14F*.html


Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia

Lefkosia. Archeological museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet

Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

St George of the Greeks Church, Famagusta

http://www.whatson-northcyprus.com/interest/famagusta/famagusta/george_greeks.htm

Famagusta, Museum garden

Famagusta, Museum garden

Famagusta - Arsinoe on Cyprus [ Mağusa - Gazimağusa] (1 km)

The town was also known as Arsinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη), after Arsinoe II of Egypt. It was founded in around 274 BC.


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