Kastraki (Lokris)
Kastraki ( Greek Καστράκι = small castle ) or Kokkinovrachos ( Greek Κοκκινόβραχος = red rock ) is a mountain about 1.5 km southwest of Kyparissi in Lokri in central Greece .
On the approximately 280 m high mountain there are up to 3 m thick polygonal walls dating from the 4th or 3rd century BC. Originate from an ancient fortress up to 2 m high. Two goals could be determined. William Abbott Oldfather , who wanted to prove whether the ruins were the ancient opus , carried out archaeological excavations in 1911 on behalf of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens together with Carl Blegen . The foundations of a Doric temple from the 5th century BC were found on the northern slope . And remains of houses from classical and Roman times.
In the plain north of the hill Hope Simpson and Lazenby found sherds from the late Mycenaean (SH III BC), protogeometric , geometric and archaic times . The lower city to the Acropolis on the Kastraki was probably located here .
In the 1980s, the 14th Ephoria for Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities led by the archaeologist Fanouria Dakoronia again excavations. She discovered the foundations of a 25 m long Doric columned hall from the 6th century BC. The youngest pottery shards found date around 540 BC. From this it was concluded that the portico was built before 500 BC. Fell victim to an earthquake and was not rebuilt after that. The hypostyle hall may have belonged to a temple of Eucleia . The remains of the foundations of a Franconian tower date from the Middle Ages .
It has not yet been satisfactorily clarified which city the ruins are. The city of Atalanti is identified as an ancient opus today . However, there are archaeologists who suspect that Opus was initially on the Kastraki and was only moved to Atalanti at a later time. Oldfather assumed that Oion was here , which is now located further west. Others suspect that it is the place of Anastasis, which has only been passed on by the grammarian Hierocles .
Web links
- Image: View from the west of Kastraki at ascsa.net
- Image: View from the north on Kastraki at perseus.tufts.edu
- Kiparissi at media.yen.gr
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Lauffer : Greece. Lexicon of Historic Places. , Augsburg 1999, p. 491
- ^ Carl William Blegen: The Site of Opous in American Journal of Archeology , 1926, Volume 30, p. 402
- ↑ Patricia Sheila Wren: Archaic Halai , August 1996 ( online ( memento of the original from June 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note . )
- ↑ Hierocles: Synekdemos
Coordinates: 38 ° 37 ′ 33 ″ N , 23 ° 5 ′ 6 ″ E