Methylion

39°24′30″N 21°57′43″E / 39.408469°N 21.962071°E / 39.408469; 21.962071 Methylion (Ancient Greek: Μεθύλιον) was a town and polis (city-state) in ancient Thessaly.^[1] Methylion minted coins dated to the 5th and 4th centuries BCE with the legends «ΜΕΘΥ» and «ΜΕΘΥΛΙΕΩΝ».^[1] In addition, there is epigraphic evidence dated to 230-220 BCE of a theorodokos of Methylion.^[2] Stephanus of Byzantium refers to the town as Methydrion (Μεθύδριον).^[3]

Its location is near modern Mirina, where excavations have uncovered floor tiles dated to the third century BCE bearing the inscription "Μεθυλιέων".^[1]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 697. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 45 (1921) 1 III,29.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Μεθύδριον.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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[Poleis-1] Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 697. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

[2] Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 45 (1921) 1 III,29.

[3] Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Μεθύδριον.

[4] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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