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LEUKOLLA (Ancient city) CYPRUS
The sea battle of 306 B.C., in which Demetrios Poliorketes defeated
Ptolemy, is said to have been fought off Leukolla, tentatively identified with
a site at Protaras on the coast S of Famagusta. A small but safe bay, known in
the time of Sakellarios as Konnos, may be the harbor of Leukolla mentioned by
Strabo, who places it between Arsinoe (Ammochostos) and Cape Pedalion (14.682).
The ruins of a small town above this bay may belong to the place mentioned
by Athenaios from whom we learn that the trireme of Antigonos with which the generals
of Ptolemy were defeated at Laukolla was dedicated to Apollo in that town. It
is characteristic that among the ruins noted above was found a Hellenistic inscription
dedicated to Apollo. An excavation in 1877 uncovered a building, obviously a sanctuary,
which produced some fragments of sculpture in stone.
The site is unexplored.
K. Nicolaou, 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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