Laüs
Sign in to savethumb|Stater of Laus with man-headed bull, c. 490-470 BC
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Laus
- Ancient site.native_name
- ΛᾶοςLaos
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Laus
- Ancient site.image
- Laos SNGANS 132.jpg
- Ancient site.alt
- Obverse and reverse of a coin from Laüs
- Ancient site.caption
- Stater of Laus with man-headed bull, c. 510-500 BC
- Ancient site.map_type
- Italy
- Ancient site.location
- Marcellina, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
- Ancient site.epochs
- Archaic Greek to Roman Republican
- Ancient site.cultures
- Greek, Lucanian
- Ancient site.excavations
- First between 1929 and 1932
- Ancient site.ownership
- Public
- Ancient site.management
- Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Calabria
- Ancient site.website
- ArcheoCalabriaVirtual
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Excavations
- The site today
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Stater of Laus with man-headed bull, c. 490-470 BC
Laüs or Laus (; ) was an ancient city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It was at the mouth of the Lao River, which formed the boundary between Lucania and Bruttium in ancient times and gave it its name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laüs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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