Schoinous

Coordinates: 37 ° 55 ′ 5 ″  N , 23 ° 0 ′ 35 ″  E

View from Kalamaki beach to the north. The Early Helladic Cemetery was discovered on the mountain in the background.

Sauce boat from the Early Helladic cemetery north of ancient Schoinous (2550-2100 BC)

Schoinous or Schönus ( ancient Greek Σχοινοῦς ) was an ancient port on the Saronic Gulf . It was located in the south of what is now Kalamaki, at a point where Doric columns and other architectural fragments were found. Here was the eastern end of the Diolkos , a paved path on which small ships could be pulled across the Isthmus of Corinth . At the western end was the place Poseidonia . In this way the journey by ship was shortened considerably and the risky circumnavigation of the Peloponnese was avoided . Schoinous was also the port of the Poseidon sanctuary of Isthmia . Pomponius Mela called the port town Schoenitas .

About 500 m north of Kalamaki, the archaeologist Oscar Broneer discovered an early Helladic cemetery (2550-2100 BC) in 1956 during investigations in connection with the construction of the Ethniki Odos 8a in the mountains about 170 m above sea level . In the vicinity of the cemetery, potsherds were found that date from the Early Helladic to the Late Helladic period . The finds are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Isthmia.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Strabo : Geographica , 8, 6, 4 (p. 369); 8, 6, 22 (p. 380); 9, 1, 2 (p. 391)
2. ↑ Guy DR Sanders, Jennifer Palinkas, Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst, James Herbst: Ancient Corinth: Site Guide, Athens 2018, p. 11
3. ^ Pomponius Mela: De orbis situ: libri tres. , 2, 50.
4. ↑ Konstantinos Theodoridis: Μυκηναϊκή Κορινθία , 2014, pp. 12-13