Tricorythos

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Trikorythos ( Greek  Τρικόρυθος ) or Trikorynthos ( Greek  Τρικόρυνθος ) was an Attic demos of the phyle Aiantis . Together with Marathon , Probalinthos and Oinoe he formed the Attic Tetrapolis . According to Strabo , Tricorythos was between Marathon and Rhamnous .

Trikorythos lay on the approximately 80 m high eastern saddle of the mountain Stavrokoraki north of today's place Schinias and west of Kato Souli, which is now called Tambouri ( Greek Ταμπούρι ). Around the summit of the saddle there was an almost round wall with a diameter of about 100 m and a thickness of about 1.50 m. A second wall with a thickness of about 2.50 m enclosed the eastern and southern slopes of the mountain and thus covered an approximately square area of ​​about 200 × 200 m. The outer wall approached the inner wall in the northwest, so that in this area there was only a narrow rampart between the walls.

The spring east at the foot of the mountain is said to have been named after Makaria , the daughter of Heracles . According to legend, the head of Eurystheus was also buried here. That is why the place was called Eurystheus' head. In the 3rd century AD, an oval wall against pirates or Ostrogoths was built on the summit .

During the construction of the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Center , three houses of a small early Helladic settlement (2900–2000 BC) were discovered north of the complex about 500 m east of the Makaria source between 2000 and 2004 . In addition, an estate from the 4th century BC was built. Discovered as well as cemeteries from archaic , classical and late Roman to early Christian times (3rd – 6th centuries AD). This area north of the largest marshes of Schinias seems to have been continuously inhabited from the Early Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.

literature

  • Ministry of Culture, General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage (Ed.): Marathon. Museum and Archaeological Sites . Athens 2008, ISBN 978-960-88795-2-2 , pp. 11-12, 93-95 .
  • Habbo Gerhard Lolling : On the topography of Marathon . In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Athenian Department . tape 1 . Karl Wilberg, Athens 1876, p. 79-83 ( [1] [accessed July 24, 2015]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Strabo, Geographika , 399.
  2. ^ Strabo, Geographika , 377.
  3. ^ Robert Boulanger: Greece , Paris 1963, p. 372

Coordinates: 38 ° 10 '  N , 24 ° 0'  E