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'''Tibula''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: {{lang|grc|Τιβουλα}}, Ptol.), was an ancient town of [[Sardinia]], near the northern extremity of the island, which appears to have been the customary landing-place for travelers coming from [[Corsica]]; for which reason the [[Antonine Itinerary|Itineraries]] give no less than four lines of route, taking their departure from Tibula as a starting-point. (Itin. Ant. pp. 78–83.)
==Location==
Its position is a matter of great uncertainty. That assigned to it by [[Ptolemy]] would place it on the site of [[Castelsardo]] ([[province of Sassari]]) on the north coast of the island, and only about 30 km from [[Porto Torres]], but this is wholly incompatible with the statements of the Itineraries, and must certainly be erroneous. Indeed, Ptolemy himself places the [[Tibulati]] or Tibulates or Tibulatii ({{lang|grc|Τιβουλάτιοι}}), who must have been closely connected with the town of that name, in the extreme north of the island (Ptol. iii. 3. § 6), and all the data derived from the Itineraries concur in the same result. The position assigned it by De la Marmora, and adopted by [[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith]] is the port or small bay called [[Porto di Lungo Sardo]], almost close to the northernmost point of the island, the [[Errebantium Promontorium]] of Ptolemy. (De la Marmora, ''Voy. en Sardaigne'', vol. ii. pp. 421–32, where the whole question is fully examined and discussed.) The editors of the [[Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World]] place Tibula at [[Santa Teresa Gallura]] ([[province of Olbia-Tempio]]).
==References==
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*{{Barrington|48}}
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[[Category:Lost ancient cities and towns]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Sardinia]]