Thymiaterium

Thymiaterium or Thymiaterion (Ancient Greek: Θυμιατήριον)[1] was an ancient Carthaginian colony in present-day Morocco. It was founded by Hanno the Navigator on his journey of exploration beyond the Pillars of Hercules. The city is mentioned in the Periplus (Περίπλους).[2][3] The manuscript is a copy of another Greek work which translated the Punic original and is part of the Codex Palatines Graecus 398 which belongs to the Heidelberg University.[2]

For the religious object, see Thymiaterion.
Thymiaterium is seen here at the lower left, on what is now the Atlantic coast of Morocco.

According to Hanno, he founded the colony, the first of his journey, two days' sail past the Pillars of Hercules. Schoff, citing a scholar named C. Miiller, identified it with the town of Mehedia, currently known as Mehdya.[4]

The location of Thymiaterium is also given at Mehedia in the Atlas of Ancient & Classical Geography.[5]

References
  1. Periplus of Hanno, 2
  2. Hanno: Carthaginian Explorer
  3. Hanno the Navigator (1912). The Periplus of Hanno, a Voyage of Discovery down the African Coast, by a Carthaginian Admiral of the Fifth Century B.C. Translated by Schoff, Wilfred H. Philadelphia: Secretary of the Commercial Museum.
  4. Hanno the Navigator (2)
  5. Butler, Samuel (1907). Atlas of Ancient & Classical Geography. London: JM Dent & Co.
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