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DOI Artikel:Paton, W. R.; Dörpfeld, Wilhelm [Mitarb.]: Note on Arconnesos
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NOTE ΟΝ ARCONNESOS
(Plate XII and XIII)
The almost desert Island of Arconnesos (Kara-Ada in the
British chart1) is at its nearest point about 2 7? mües from
Halicarnassos and, by the protection it affords from southerly
seas, makes Boudroum Bay a safe anchorage for big ships.
The greatest part of the island, like the neighbouring coast,
is made of grey limestone. At its S. W. extremity just beyond
Hag. Elias (C on the map, pi. 12) the character of the rock
changes. The rock is here of a reddish colour and its strata
have not been washed into each other, so that it can be easily
quarried in slabs. The temenos [A) here described (s. p. 470)
is built of native lime-stone blocks ; the hill-tombs (.D), I will
mention below, are built of this other kind of rock and are
situated at the very spot where it takes the place of the lime-
stone. On the whole northern face of the island the rock is
deeply covered with soil. On this side the slopes are somewhat
abrupt, but they are thickly wooded with wild-olive, schinos,
arbutus and adraklia ; so thickly that it is impossible to ascend
them in most places. As we approach from the N. the sum-
mit of the highest peak of the island (Hag. Elias about 1200 ft.)
we lind ourselves in a wood of somewhat stunted pines, which
notwithstanding their small proportions shadow, while they
do not oust, their less noble neighbours. There are no pine-
woods on the ränge of hills immediately opposite Arconnesos
and the nearest cousins of these pines are high up on the
ränge of the Kara-dagh, several miles to theN.W. of Boudroum.
1 A copy of the chart raay he seen on pl. 12, where the different points
mentioned below are marked with the letters A - F.
(Plate XII and XIII)
The almost desert Island of Arconnesos (Kara-Ada in the
British chart1) is at its nearest point about 2 7? mües from
Halicarnassos and, by the protection it affords from southerly
seas, makes Boudroum Bay a safe anchorage for big ships.
The greatest part of the island, like the neighbouring coast,
is made of grey limestone. At its S. W. extremity just beyond
Hag. Elias (C on the map, pi. 12) the character of the rock
changes. The rock is here of a reddish colour and its strata
have not been washed into each other, so that it can be easily
quarried in slabs. The temenos [A) here described (s. p. 470)
is built of native lime-stone blocks ; the hill-tombs (.D), I will
mention below, are built of this other kind of rock and are
situated at the very spot where it takes the place of the lime-
stone. On the whole northern face of the island the rock is
deeply covered with soil. On this side the slopes are somewhat
abrupt, but they are thickly wooded with wild-olive, schinos,
arbutus and adraklia ; so thickly that it is impossible to ascend
them in most places. As we approach from the N. the sum-
mit of the highest peak of the island (Hag. Elias about 1200 ft.)
we lind ourselves in a wood of somewhat stunted pines, which
notwithstanding their small proportions shadow, while they
do not oust, their less noble neighbours. There are no pine-
woods on the ränge of hills immediately opposite Arconnesos
and the nearest cousins of these pines are high up on the
ränge of the Kara-dagh, several miles to theN.W. of Boudroum.
1 A copy of the chart raay he seen on pl. 12, where the different points
mentioned below are marked with the letters A - F.