Steiria
Steiria or Stiria ( Greek Στειριά Steiriá ) was the name of a place on the east coast of Attica in ancient times . He belonged to the Phyle Pandionis and was located in the coastal Trittye South Myrrhinous . It was located in the north of the bay of Porto Rafti near today's district of Agios Spyridonas. The so-called Styrian Road , which led from Athens, ended here.
Polemon of Athens , Theramenes , Thrasybulus and Hegesander came from Steiria .
In the vicinity of the ancient place, on the southern slope of the Perati Mountains, a late Mycenaean cemetery was discovered that was used almost during the entire Late Helladic III C (approx. 1190-1070 / 50 BC) and proves that in the One or more settlements must have existed nearby, which apparently flourished at this time - after the end of the Mycenaean palace period . In 1893, after some graves had been looted by grave robbers, Valerios Staes undertook the first excavations. From 1953 to 1963 Spyros Iakovidis led systematic excavations and discovered 192 chamber and 26 shaft graves . There were individual and family graves, in most of the graves the unburned body was buried - only a few contained urns. The chamber graves were closed with stones and the dromos filled with earth. The finds, some of which are exhibited in the Brauron Museum, date from around 1190 BC. BC to 1075 BC Chr. ( SH IIIC ).
literature
- Siegfried Lauffer (Ed.): Greece. Lexicon of Historic Places , Beck, Munich 1989, p. 637.
Individual evidence
- ^ Strabo , Geographica , 399.
- ↑ Augustus Meineke , Stephani Byzantii ethnicorum quae supersunt , Berlin 1849. [1]
- ^ Brian M. Lavelle: Fame, Money, and Power. The Rise of Peisistratos and "Democratic" Tyranny at Athens. University of Michigan 2005, p. 20, note 11.
Coordinates: 37 ° 53 ′ 44 ″ N , 24 ° 1 ′ 56 ″ E