Ampelos (Crete)

Ampelos ( Greek Ἄμπελος ) was a cape and a city on the southeast coast of the Greek island of Crete in ancient times . The cape is mentioned by Ptolemy (3,17,4), the city as one of the oppida insignia by Pliny ( Nat. 4,59). The location of the city on Crete opposite the Kavallos Islands ( Νησίδες Καβάλοι ) was identified by Thomas AB Spratt . Ampelos is localized at today's Xerokambos ( Ξερόκαμπος ), where the excavation site of a Hellenistic settlement is on the hill Farmakokefalo ( Φαρμακοκέφαλο ) .

Individual evidence

^ Klaudios Ptolemaios : Handbook of Geography . Introduction and Book 1–4. Ed .: Alfred Stückelberger, Gerd Grasshoff. 2nd Edition. Schwabe, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7965-2148-5 , Crete, p. 377 ( online [accessed January 17, 2019]).
^ Georg Christian Wittstein: The natural history of the Cajus Plinius Secundus . 4th book. Gressner & Schramm, Leipzig 1881, p. 320 ( digitized version [accessed January 18, 2019]).
^ ^A ^b Holger Sonnabend : Ampelos [1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 608.
^ TAB Spratt : Travels and Researches in Crete . tape 1 . J. van Voorst, London 1865, Chapter XXI, pp. 238–239 (English, digitized version [accessed January 18, 2019]).

↑ Elisabeth Mlinar: Fortified cities, settlements and other fortification systems on Crete from the Archaic to the end of the Hellenistic period . Dissertation. tape 1 . University of Vienna, Vienna 2014, Xerokampos, Pharmakokephalo / Ampelos or Stalai (?), P. 127–128 ( digitized version [PDF; accessed January 17, 2019]).

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[1] Klaudios Ptolemaios : Handbook of Geography . Introduction and Book 1–4. Ed .: Alfred Stückelberger, Gerd Grasshoff. 2nd Edition. Schwabe, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7965-2148-5 , Crete, p. 377 ( online [accessed January 17, 2019]).

[2] Georg Christian Wittstein: The natural history of the Cajus Plinius Secundus . 4th book. Gressner & Schramm, Leipzig 1881, p. 320 ( digitized version [accessed January 18, 2019]).

[Sonnabend-3] A ^b Holger Sonnabend : Ampelos [1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 608.

[4] TAB Spratt : Travels and Researches in Crete . tape 1 . J. van Voorst, London 1865, Chapter XXI, pp. 238–239 (English, digitized version [accessed January 18, 2019]).

[5] Elisabeth Mlinar: Fortified cities, settlements and other fortification systems on Crete from the Archaic to the end of the Hellenistic period . Dissertation. tape 1 . University of Vienna, Vienna 2014, Xerokampos, Pharmakokephalo / Ampelos or Stalai (?), P. 127–128 ( digitized version [PDF; accessed January 17, 2019]).