Scithae or Skithai (Ancient Greek: Σκίθαι) was a town of Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia. It is cited in a fragment of Theopompus collected by Stephanus of Byzantium, which locates it in Thrace, in the vicinity of Potidaea.[1] The city also appears on coins; Scithaean silver coins dated around the year 500 BCE have been preserved.
It has been suggested that Scithae is the same place as Kithas,[2] which suggestion is accepted by the editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.[3]
Accepting the identification, its site is located in the western Chalcidice.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Axios to Strymon". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 843. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ a b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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