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Elne

Iron-Age oppidum

Ancient

Illiberris/Illerris/Helena

Ancient
Illiberris/Illerris/Helena
Type
Iron-Age oppidum

Ill(ib)erris/Helena

Pleiades ID: 246433

settlement

Description

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 25 H3 Ill(ib)erris/Helena

Evidence

  • TP (Talbert: CUP) 1B3 (Talbert 776)
    Talbert, Richard. “Database: Peutinger Map Names and Features, with Commentary and User’s Guide.” In Explore the Peutinger Map. Cambridge UP, 2010. http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/talbertdatabase/prm.html.
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  • Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.32.3
    Plinius Secundus Maior, C. Naturalis Historiae. Edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Lipsiae: Teubner, 1906. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/0.
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  • Str. (Meineke: Perseus) 4.1.6
    Strabo. Strabonis Geographica: recognovit Augustus Meineke. Edited by August Meineke. 3 in 2 vols. Lipsiae, 1877.
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See Further

  • BAtlas 25 H3 Ill(ib)erris/Helena
    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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  • RE Suppl. 3 Iliberri 3
    Pauly, August Friedrich von, Georg Wissowa, Wilhelm Kroll, Kurt Witte, Karl Mittelhaus, and Konrat Ziegler, eds. Real-Encyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. 83 vols. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1894.
  • Bromwich 1993 121
    Bromwich, James. The Roman Remains of Southern France: A Guidebook. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • PECS (Perseus) ILLIBERIS (Elne) Pyrénés-Orientales, France
    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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  • ToposText Illiberis/Helena (Gallia)
    Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016-.
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See Also

Names

la fr grc

Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Ill(ib)erris/Helena" Pleiades, 12 May 2021. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246433.
Last modified: 2021-05-12T14:40:04Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

ILLIBERIS (Elne) Pyrénés-Orientales, France.

Iberian oppidum built on an isolated butte in the plain of Roussillon, near the coastal river Iliberis (Strab. 4.1.6), now the Tech, at the foot of the Albère Massif. The importance and prosperity of the town is said to have declined under the early Empire (Plin. 3.32), but under Constantine it regained its role as a fortified place guarding the principal routes across the E Pyrenees. At this time it took the name of Castrum Helenae (Elne) in honor of the mother of Constantine. It was the see of a diocese from the 6th c. on.

The ancient settlement is directly under the mediaeval and modern town, and there is evidence of continuous human occupation since the 6th c. B.C. Recent emergency excavation has uncovered modest structures and pre-Roman storage pits in the upper town, and in the lower town a necropolis of the Early Christian era. The archaeological artifacts are preserved nearby in a museum in the cathedral buildings.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

E. Espérandieu, Répertoire archéologique des Pyrénées-Orientales (1936) 28-29; “Informations,” Gallia 20 (1962) 611; 22 (1964) 473; 29 (1971) 369.

G. BARRUOL

Location

42.5995, 2.9726