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Kastalia

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A Greek name for the famous spring at Delphi

Romanized Name(s):
Kastalia

Name as attested:

Κασταλία

Language:
Greek (ancient)

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Classical (Greco-Roman; 550 BC-330 BC) (confident)
Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC) (confident)
Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

Herodotus 8.39.1

Citation:

Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library edition)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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