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The modern village of Finik retains the name of the ancient city of Phoinice.
According to Polybios, this was the best fortified town of Epeiros.
It rose on a hill shaped like the wrecked keel of a ship, with the village of
Finik at the foot of the hill. The walls, in three sections, are preserved on
the hill: the acropolis walls, the walls of the period of the enlarging of the
acropolis, and the walls of the fortified city. These walls, constructed in ashlar
masonry, employed huge blocks, and in some places rest in the living rock. They
date between the 4th c. and 2d c. B.C. Inside the acropolis are the remains of
Greek and Roman walls. In the village, there are few remains of Greek walls, but
the Roman remains are numerous, incorporated for the most part into modern buildings.
Some are in opus reticulatum and brick, others in opus incertum and can be dated
even to the late Roman period. A small thesauros has been uncovered on the acropolis.
In the Byzantine period it was transformed into a baptistery. Three cisterns,
dating between the 5th c. B.C. and the 3d c. A.D., are recognizable, as are a
few remains of minor buildings.
The necropolis, set on the slopes of the hill, contains tombs, all
of the Hellenistic period, some chest-like in rock slabs and others covered with
tiles.
P. C. Sestieri, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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