Luz de Tavira, Tavira

city

Ancient

Balsa

Place Type
city
Ancient Name
Balsa
Archaeological Type
city

PLEIADES platform information on Classical Antiquity

Pleiades ID: 256013

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 26 C4 Balsa

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  • BAtlas 26 C4 Balsa
    Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.
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  • TIR Emerita 42
    Alarcão, Jorge de, Adela Cepas, José Ignacio Reguera Cardiel, Angela Alonso Sánchez, and Union académique internationale, eds. Tabula Imperii Romani. Hoja J-29 : Lisboa : Emerita, Scallabis, Pax Iulia, Gades: sobre la base cartográfica del mapa a escala 1:1000000 del IGN. Tabula Imperii Romani, J-29. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas : Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Transportes y Medio Ambiente, Instituto Geográfico Nacional : Ministerio de Cultura, 1995. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36156421.
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  • PECS (Perseus) BALSA (Tavira) Algarve. Portugal
    Stillwell, Richard, William L MacDonald, and Marian Holland McAllister, eds. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006.
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  • Wikipedia (English) Balsa (Roman town)
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Balsa (Roman town).
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  • Wikipedia (Portuguese) Balsa (Lusitânia)
    Wikipédia: A enciclopédia livre que todos podem editar (2001-), Balsa (Lusitânia).
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  • ToposText Balsa (Lusitania)
    Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016. https://topostext.org/.
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Citation

Jr., F.H. Stanley, and R.C. Knapp. "Balsa" Pleiades, 12 November 2023. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/256013.
Last modified: 2023-11-12T00:32:21Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

BALSA (Tavira) Algarve. Portugal.

Mentioned by Mela (3.1), Pliny (HN 4.22), Ptolemy (2.5), and in the Antonine Itinerary, Balsa has been identified with a site between Santa Luzia and Senhora de Luz, near Tavira, by many inscriptions and other objects found in the region. The cemetery has been explored but there has been no extensive excavation. The finds are in the National Museum of Archaeology in Lisbon.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Viana, “Balsa y la necropolis romana d'As Pedras d'El Rei,” Archivo Español de Arqueologia (1952) 261-85.

J. ALARCÃO

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