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Lower Potamus

Lower Potamus, Potamus Hypenerthen or Potamos Hypenerthen, was a deme of ancient Attica. It lay on the east coast north of Thoricus, and was once a populous place: it was celebrated as containing the sepulchre of Ion.

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Lower Potamus, Potamus Hypenerthen or Potamos Hypenerthen (Ancient Greek: Ποταμός ὑπένερθεν), was a deme of ancient Attica. It lay on the east coast north of Thoricus, and was once a populous place: it was celebrated as containing the sepulchre of Ion.1234

Lower Potamus is tentatively located at Panepistemioupolis.56

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  1. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. pp, 398, 399. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Pausanias (1918). "31.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 7.1.2.
  3. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 4.7.11.
  4. Suda, s.v. Ποταμός; Harpocr., s.v. Ποταμός
  5. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  6. Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Attica". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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