Note 222 — Chapter II · Athens
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No mines are marked actually at Sunium in the map attached to Ardaillon’s careful study of the mines of Laurium, but a mine at Sunium (μέταλλον ἐπὶ Σουνίῳ) is mentioned in the inscription published by Oikonomos, Ath. Mitt. XXXV. (1910), p. 277, l. 9; so also C.I.A. II. 781: cp. also Eurip. Cycl. 293–4, “aery Sunium’s silver-veined crag (ὑπάργυρος πέτρα),” tr. Shelley. Sunium and Thoricus, also in the mining district (“at Thoricus and Laurium are mines of silver,” schol. Aesch. Pers. 238), are coupled together by Pliny, N.H. IV. 11 (7), as “promontoria.”