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ID: 5004294
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5004294
Record Type:
administrative
Vaphio (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 01 20 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.0220
decimal degrees
Long: 022 27 39 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.4600
decimal degrees
Note:
Village located on Eurotas river, around 5 miles S of Sparta; noted for fine gold cups found just outside the village, in a Minoan tomb dating from ca. 1500 BCE.
Names:
Vafíon
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Vafio
(
C
,
V
)
Vafeio
(
C
,
V
)
Vaphio
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Van
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Greece
(nation) (
P
)
............
Peloponnese
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Laconia
(regional division) (
P
)
....................
Vaphio
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was Minoan site
village (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
Vaphio cups were discovered in 1889
Sources and Contributors:
Vafeio..........
[
VP
]
.................
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World online (2000-)
Vafio..........
[
GRLPSC
]
..............
GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Vafíon..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World online (2000-)
Van..........
[
VP
]
...........
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Vaphio..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
2006
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
2006
..................
GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Blue Guide: Greece (1981)
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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