Listed 4 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for destination: "LEMNOS (LIMNOS) Island NORTH AEGEAN".
Fall of Hephaestus on, Dionysus carries Ariadne to, Philoctetes put ashore in, Philoctetes fetched from, off the Troad, colonised by the Minyae, its Pelasgian inhabitants, bereft of men and ruled by a queen, the Argonauts at, their crime and penalty, Minyans expelled from L. by Pelasgians, Lemnians in Peloponnese, people of L. dedicate image of Athena.
Tablet of Lemnian medicinal earth certified as such by bearing the impression of the seal of the Lemnian priestess of Artemis
Another name for Lemnian earth, so called because sold in sealed packets, Plin. 35, 6, 14, § 33
Lemnia Terra, also called Sigillata. A species of reddish earth found in Lemnos, and highly esteemed down to modern times for its supposed virtues as an antidote against snake-bites and as a remedy for dysentery. It was gathered on only one day of the year (Aug. 6) with religious ceremonies.
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