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DOI article:Paton, W. R.; Dörpfeld, Wilhelm [Contr.]: Note on Arconnesos
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W. R. PATON
which has such a natural defence is the top of the highest
summit Hag. Elias, where the precipice is on the S. and here
there is not room for building, as the slope on the N. is im-
mediately very steep.
The only other sites on the island which preserve traces of
ancient inhabitants are 1.) the Western cape near which 1 was
told there are some cisterns, 2.) the church of the Panagia (B)
douhtless on the site of an ancient Settlement. Tombs made
of tiles and a good many ancient coins (some of Cos) have
heen found here. There are also to he seen here some not very
remarkable late Hellenic architectural fraements and a small
O
basis with the following inscription (width 33cm, depth 30cm
hei ght 22cra).
bi v/i ΛΙΙΣφΙΛΑΓΡΟΥΤΟΥΙΑ
ΤΡΟΚΛΕΟΥΣΤ ONKO!
ΤΩΝATOM E ΝΤΩΙ I EPA
ΤΙΚΩΟΙΚΩΧΑΡΙΣ
THPiONKAiTOMAAl
Σ τ m p ! Ο N
Τεροκ]λ[η]ς Φιλάγοου του Ία-
τροκλέους τον κοι-
τώνα τον Ιν τω ίερα-
τικώ(ι) οΐ'κω(ι) χαρισ-
τήριον καί το ρ,αδι-
[στηρ]ιον.
It has been published already in the B. C. H. 1894 p. 18
by Mr. Cousin and Deschamps with some slight discrepances.
value owing to the view it commands and other causes; but it is unneces-
sary that there should be precipices which save the trouble of building. 3) a
site is selected which is inost unsuitable for residence, but is (if possible)
defended by precipices all round. To the first dass belong the fortified
hill-villages of the Leleges; to the second Hellenic and to the third me-
dieval fortresses. It would be impossilde to strictly classify all the fortresses
I have seen thus, but it is a sort of basis of Classification. The contrast be-
tween the primitive (Lelegian) fortresses and the medieval fortresses is inte-
resting. The Leleges treated fortification as a matter of form and selected
sites which could be fortified without too much trouble and were withal
convenient for residence; the medieval people chose sites most inconvenient
for residence, but naturally very strong. We know more or less why tho
inhabitants of these coasts in the middle ages were obliged to make them-
selves so secure and it is popularly supposcd that in the Homeric or pre-
J-Iomeric age things were as bad; but this, I imagine, was not so.
W. R. PATON
which has such a natural defence is the top of the highest
summit Hag. Elias, where the precipice is on the S. and here
there is not room for building, as the slope on the N. is im-
mediately very steep.
The only other sites on the island which preserve traces of
ancient inhabitants are 1.) the Western cape near which 1 was
told there are some cisterns, 2.) the church of the Panagia (B)
douhtless on the site of an ancient Settlement. Tombs made
of tiles and a good many ancient coins (some of Cos) have
heen found here. There are also to he seen here some not very
remarkable late Hellenic architectural fraements and a small
O
basis with the following inscription (width 33cm, depth 30cm
hei ght 22cra).
bi v/i ΛΙΙΣφΙΛΑΓΡΟΥΤΟΥΙΑ
ΤΡΟΚΛΕΟΥΣΤ ONKO!
ΤΩΝATOM E ΝΤΩΙ I EPA
ΤΙΚΩΟΙΚΩΧΑΡΙΣ
THPiONKAiTOMAAl
Σ τ m p ! Ο N
Τεροκ]λ[η]ς Φιλάγοου του Ία-
τροκλέους τον κοι-
τώνα τον Ιν τω ίερα-
τικώ(ι) οΐ'κω(ι) χαρισ-
τήριον καί το ρ,αδι-
[στηρ]ιον.
It has been published already in the B. C. H. 1894 p. 18
by Mr. Cousin and Deschamps with some slight discrepances.
value owing to the view it commands and other causes; but it is unneces-
sary that there should be precipices which save the trouble of building. 3) a
site is selected which is inost unsuitable for residence, but is (if possible)
defended by precipices all round. To the first dass belong the fortified
hill-villages of the Leleges; to the second Hellenic and to the third me-
dieval fortresses. It would be impossilde to strictly classify all the fortresses
I have seen thus, but it is a sort of basis of Classification. The contrast be-
tween the primitive (Lelegian) fortresses and the medieval fortresses is inte-
resting. The Leleges treated fortification as a matter of form and selected
sites which could be fortified without too much trouble and were withal
convenient for residence; the medieval people chose sites most inconvenient
for residence, but naturally very strong. We know more or less why tho
inhabitants of these coasts in the middle ages were obliged to make them-
selves so secure and it is popularly supposcd that in the Homeric or pre-
J-Iomeric age things were as bad; but this, I imagine, was not so.