Road station
Thapedon
s. Kommentar
Thapedon, known only from this map and the list of places compiled in Ravenna, lay somewhere near the Malian Gulf in Greece, between Phalara and Thermopylae; older research placed it at the crossing of the Spercheios, where remains of a Byzantine town were seen, others near Heraclea Trachinia or at Gorgopotamos. It may have been a customs post on the border between the provinces of Achaia and Macedonia. The map gives twenty-seven miles on either side, and the second figure, about forty kilometres, is far too many for the short way to Thermopylae: probably the first was copied twice.