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ID: 7594120
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7594120
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Motyon (lost settlement)  Motyon (lost settlement)

Note: A lost Akragan fortified site destroyed by Sicilian leader Ducetius in 451 BCE and reconquered by the Greeks the following year. It was located in the territory of Agrigentum (modern Agrigento); however, it may be identified as Vassallaggi in Caltanissetta province.

Names:
Motyon (preferred,C,V)
Motyum (C,V)
Μότυον (C,V,Greek,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sicily (region (administrative division))  ............  Sicily (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of unified Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Agrigento (province)  ................  Agrigento (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Motyon (lost settlement)  ....................  Motyon (lost settlement) (P)

Place Types:
lost settlement (preferred, C)
fortified settlement (H)

Related geographic places:
possibly identified as ....  Vassallaggi .......... (deserted settlement)
........................................  (World, Europe, Italy, Sicily, Caltanissetta province) [5002778]

Sources and Contributors:
Μότυον..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Motyon..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
.................  Pleiades (2006-) http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462375
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Motyum..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)

 

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