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PORT-VENDRES (Town) PYRENEES ORIENTALES
Portus Veneris (Port-Vendres) Canton of Argeles-sur-Mer, Pyrenees-Orientales,
France.
Excellent seaport located at the E extremity of the Pyrenees on the rocky shore
of the Albere, near Cape Bear. It should be identified with Pyrene, a native harbor
frequented by the Massaliots from the 6th c. B.C. on (Avienus Ora maritima v.
559). The Aphrodision mentioned by Strabo (4.1.3 and 6) should be located near
this port, perhaps on Cape Bear itself. Standing on the last slope of Mt. Pyrene,
it marked for sailors the dividing line between Gaul and Iberia, and during the
Roman period gave its name--Portus Veneris--to the ancient city (Plin. 3.22; Ptol.
2.10.2).
Port-Vendres has yielded to date little in the way of antique remains,
but a ship of the Late Empire laden with amphorae has been discovered in the port
and explored.
G. Barruol, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Feb 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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