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Rolfe, John Carew: Discoveries at Anthedon in 1889, [1]
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DISCOVERIES AT ANTHEDON IN 1889.
[Plate XIV, Plan.]
REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS AT ANTHEDON*
In the winter of 1888-9, the Director of the American School at
Athens decided to conduct excavations at one or two ancient sites in
Boiotia, and invited me to take charge of the work. As early in the
spring as the weather permitted, work was begun among the ruins of
Anthedon.
Anthedon is first mentioned by Homer (Iliad, n. 508), who speaks
of it as the furthest town in Boiotia. The pscudo-Dikaiarchos (Bto?
'EXXaSo?, 17) tells us that it was situated on the shore of the Euripos,
70 stadia from Chalkis and 160 from Thebes. Pausanias (ix. 22.6)
adds that it lay on the left side of the Euripos (as he came from the
eastward) at the foot of Mt. Messapion. This is all the information
that the ancient writers give us about the location of the town, but it
is enough to identify, as the ancient site, the remains on the shore of
the Euripos, about a mile and a half to the north of the little village
of Loukisi, and this identification has never been questioned. The
remains consist of a city-wall " of the most regular kind of masonry,"1
an acropolis hill with remains of fortification-walls, the foundations
of two breakwaters enclosing a small harbor, and " part of the plat-
form of a great public building, thirty-four yards long, founded in
the sea." ,
About the city itself our information is scanty. The pseudo-Dikai-
archos (I. c.) tells us that it was a town of no great size, and that it had
an agora surrounded by a double stoa and planted w ith trees. Strabo
*For the plans which accompany this article, I am indebted to Mr. EobcrtWeir
Schultz, of the British School at Athens. Mr. Schultz visited Anthedon with mo
after the excavations were completed, and was on the ground less than a day and a
half. For this reason his plan, though rendering accurately the appearance of the
foundations as a whole, does not attempt to give the exact dimensions and levels of
the remains. The walls are rougher at the edges in some places than might be
inferred from the plan.
1 Leake, Travels in Northern Greece, vol. n, p. 272.
194
[Plate XIV, Plan.]
REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS AT ANTHEDON*
In the winter of 1888-9, the Director of the American School at
Athens decided to conduct excavations at one or two ancient sites in
Boiotia, and invited me to take charge of the work. As early in the
spring as the weather permitted, work was begun among the ruins of
Anthedon.
Anthedon is first mentioned by Homer (Iliad, n. 508), who speaks
of it as the furthest town in Boiotia. The pscudo-Dikaiarchos (Bto?
'EXXaSo?, 17) tells us that it was situated on the shore of the Euripos,
70 stadia from Chalkis and 160 from Thebes. Pausanias (ix. 22.6)
adds that it lay on the left side of the Euripos (as he came from the
eastward) at the foot of Mt. Messapion. This is all the information
that the ancient writers give us about the location of the town, but it
is enough to identify, as the ancient site, the remains on the shore of
the Euripos, about a mile and a half to the north of the little village
of Loukisi, and this identification has never been questioned. The
remains consist of a city-wall " of the most regular kind of masonry,"1
an acropolis hill with remains of fortification-walls, the foundations
of two breakwaters enclosing a small harbor, and " part of the plat-
form of a great public building, thirty-four yards long, founded in
the sea." ,
About the city itself our information is scanty. The pseudo-Dikai-
archos (I. c.) tells us that it was a town of no great size, and that it had
an agora surrounded by a double stoa and planted w ith trees. Strabo
*For the plans which accompany this article, I am indebted to Mr. EobcrtWeir
Schultz, of the British School at Athens. Mr. Schultz visited Anthedon with mo
after the excavations were completed, and was on the ground less than a day and a
half. For this reason his plan, though rendering accurately the appearance of the
foundations as a whole, does not attempt to give the exact dimensions and levels of
the remains. The walls are rougher at the edges in some places than might be
inferred from the plan.
1 Leake, Travels in Northern Greece, vol. n, p. 272.
194