Oisyme

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Foundations of the Athene Parthenos temple

Oisyme ( ancient Greek Οἰσύμη, modern Greek Αρχαία Οισύμη) was an ancient city about 1 km south of the modern Greek town of Nea Peramos in Eastern Macedonia . It lies on the southern foothills of the Symvolon Mountains, the ancient Biblina. 500 m to the northeast is the Byzantine castle of Anaktoropolis .

Lore

In the Iliad , the city is already mentioned as Aisyme . It was the hometown of Kastianeira , one of Priam's wives . In the second half of the 7th century BC The Thasians founded an apoikia here . 424 BC The city was taken by the Spartan general Brasidas . Philip II conquered in 356 BC Chr. Oisyme. After Skymnos , the name of the place has now been changed to Emathia .

Parian pithos from a tomb in the Archaeological Museum of Kavala (650 - 600 BC)

description

Georgios Bakalakis and Paul Collart carried out excavations here and discovered a small Dipterus temple on the Acropolis , which was dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos . An ostracon was also found here , which confirms this assignment. A necropolis with graves from the 7th to 5th centuries BC was also discovered. The oldest dates back to between 650 and 625 BC. The city wall has two construction phases. In the first phase of construction, roughly hewn stones made from local granite were used. Later, more carefully worked stone blocks were built from the same material. A wall finally connected the city with the natural harbor to the southeast. Coins minted in Oisyme were also found with the inscription ΟΙΣΥΜΑΙΟΝ (Oisymaion), on which the helmet of Athena was depicted on one side. The city was abandoned in Roman times. During the First World War , the Bulgarian army built a defensive position on the Acropolis in 1916 as part of the so-called Salonika Front and partially destroyed the ancient remains.

The Acropolis is accessible from the south. A hiking trail begins at a model of a church in honor of Protitis Ilias. The path through the undergrowth is marked with red dots and above all knots made of plastic ribbons.

Web links

Commons : Oisyme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Siegfried Lauffer : Oisyme. In: Siegfried Lauffer (Ed.): Greece. Lexicon of Historic Places. CH Beck, Munich 1989, p. 477.
  • BH Isaac: The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest (= Studies of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society. Volume 10). Brill, Leiden 1997, pp. 9-10.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homer , Iliad 8,302.
  2. ^ Thucydides , The Peloponnesian War 4, 107.
  3. ↑ Diodor , Bibliotheca historica 12.68.
  4. ↑ Strabon , Geographica 7, fragment 35 (p. 331).
  5. ↑ Skymnos, Periegesis 656-658.

Coordinates: 40 ° 49 '  N , 24 ° 18'  E