39°19′13″N 22°12′26″E / 39.320332°N 22.207232°E Thetonium or Thetonion (Ancient Greek: Θητώνιον), also Theton (Θητών), was a town and polis of Thessaliotis in ancient Thessaly.[1][2][3]
History
editThe town in mentioned in an inscription dated between 450-425 BCE that is the oldest writing where the title of tagus of Thessaly is mentioned. It is an honorary decree for a certain Soter of Corinth. The acting tagus of Thetonium would be responsible for compliance with the conditions of this decree. In the same text it also appears that Thetonium had a ὑλωρός, which was a post that had surveillance functions in rural areas.[4][5][6]
It site is located at a site called Kypritsi near modern Gefiria.[7]
References
edit- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 707. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), tesis doctoral, p.196. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012). Archived 2018-08-29 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ IG 9(2).257.
- ^ "IG IX,2 257 - PHI Greek Inscriptions". epigraphy.packhum.org. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
- ^ Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), pp. 244, 261, 262. Archived 2018-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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