Toponym TP (renewed): | Thimea |
Name (modern): | oberhalb von Rumelikavağı |
Image: | ![]() To the image detail |
Toponym before | X Philias |
Toponym following | XII Sycas |
Alternative Image | --- |
Image (Barrington 2000) |
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Image (Scheyb 1753) | --- |
Image (Welser 1598) | --- |
Image (MSI 2025) | --- |
Pleiades: | https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/521168 |
Area: | Northern Balkans |
Toponym Type: | Toponym, no Symbol |
Grid square: | 8A1 |
Toponym Color: | black |
Vignette Type : | --- |
Itinerary: |   |
Alternative Name (Lexica): |   |
Name A (RE): | Phinopolis |
Name B (Barrington Atlas): | Timaea, § Thimea (53 B2) |
Name C (TIR/TIB/others): | Thimea (TIB 12, 676); Phinopolis (TIB 12, 588); ? Phineion (ibd.) |
Name D (Miller): | Thimea |
Name E (Levi): |   |
Name F (Ravennate): | Fimea (5,12 p. 93,23) |
Name G (Ptolemy): | Φινόπολις (3,11,4) |
Plinius: |   |
Strabo: |   |
Dating from Toponym on TP: | Late Hellenism (after 200 BC) |
Argument for Dating: | Frühester Beleg bei Strabo. Laut Dion. Byz. war der Leuchtturm schon halb zerfallen, doch der Ort war offenbar noch in den spätantiken Itinerarvorlagen von Rav und Guido verzeichnet. |
Commentary on the Toponym: |
Namensform mit hyperkorrektem „Th“ nur hier überliefert. |
References: |
Külzer, Andreas: The Byzantine Road System in Eastern Thrace: Some Remarks, Byzantinische Forschungen 30 (2011), 179-801, hier: 185f. |
Last Update: | 04.01.2025 19:47 |
Cite this page:
https://tp-online.ku.de/trefferanzeige_en.php?id=1174 [last accessed on August 13, 2025]