Antisara
Antisara ( ancient Greek Ἀντίσαρα , modern Greek Αρχαία Αντισάρα ) was an ancient city in modern Greek Kalamitsa, a suburb of Kavala in Eastern Macedonia .
The city lay on a promontory and had anchorages on both sides. According to Stephanos of Byzantium , it was the port of the Daton region. It was made in the 6th century BC. Founded by the Thasians and developed into an important transshipment point for wine. Later, Antisara was the port of Philippi City . The walls that can be seen between the houses of Kalamitsa date to the 5th century BC. Chr.
exploration
FB Welch was the first to suspect that the walls at Kalamitsa could be identified with the ancient Antisara. From 1935 to 1937 Antisara was excavated by Georgios Bakalakis. He found an Asklepieion that lived from the 6th to the 4th century BC. Was in operation. The oldest ceramic dates back to the 7th century BC. It is mainly local subgeometric pottery influenced by the Cycladic style . From 1969 onwards, further excavations were carried out under the direction of Chaido Koukouli-Chrysanthaki.
Web links
literature
- Siegfried Lauffer : Antisara. In: Siegfried Lauffer (Ed.): Greece. Lexicon of Historic Places. CH Beck, Munich 1989, p. 122.
- Benjamin H. Isaac: The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest (= Studies of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society. Volume 10). Brill, Leiden 1997, p. 10 and p. 65.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephanos of Byzantium, Ethnika sv Ἀντίσαρα .
- ^ FB Welch: Macedonia V. - Ancient Sites in the Strymon Valley. In: Annual of the British School at Athens. Volume 23, 1918-1919, pp. 64-66, here p. 66.
Coordinates: 40 ° 55 ' N , 24 ° 23' E