39°24′30″N 21°57′43″E / 39.408469°N 21.962071°E / 39.408469; 21.962071 Methylion (Ancient Greek: Μεθύλιον) was a town and polis (city-state) in ancient Thessaly. Methylion minted coins dated to the 5th and 4th centuries BCE with the legends «ΜΕΘΥ» and «ΜΕΘΥΛΙΕΩΝ». In addition, there is epigraphic evidence dated to 230-220 BCE of a theorodokos of Methylion. Stephanus of Byzantium refers to the town as Methydrion (Μεθύδριον).
Its location is near modern Mirina, where excavations have uncovered floor tiles dated to the third century BCE bearing the inscription "Μεθυλιέων".
References
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 697. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 45 (1921) 1 III,29.
- Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Μεθύδριον.
- Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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