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MARATHI (Village) AKROTIRI
Marathi is 17km from Chania on the Chania - Aroni - Sternes - Marathi
road. As the road winds down to sea level, there are superb views of Souda Bay
and the Lefka Ori.
Marathi is on the north side of Souda Bay, near the entrance to the
bay. It has a small fishing harbour with several tavernas.
STERNES (Village) AKROTIRI
Sternes is 15km from Chania on the Chania - Aroni - Sternes - Marathi
road. The village of Sternes contains the Byzantine church of Agii Pandes and
also remains of Venetian houses.
MINOA (Ancient city) CRETE
A small harbor town near Sternes on SE side of Akrotin peninsula,
N side of entrance to Suda Bay, opposite Aptera. It is generally thought to have
been the second port of Aptera, but from the 3d c. at least it was controlled
by Kydonia. It may once have been independent, but since no coins are known, it
was probably no longer so by the 4th c. It is mentioned only by geographers (Plin.
HN 4.12.59; Ptol. 3.15.5; Stad. 344).
Remains have been excavated (1939) of a building with 12 rooms, a
cistern, and a well (1st-2d c. A.D.) behind a shore embankment and promenade,
incorporating much reused material, which run for a further 60 m to the W, with
traces of other buildings on the landward side. This is only part of a larger
settlement occupying at least the E half of the Marathi valley, and supplied with
water by an open aqueduct. Pre-Roman settlement is shown by the reused material.
In the hillside bordering the plain on the N, by the rock shelter of Marathospilio,
was an important open-air sanctuary (of Diktynna?) from at least archaic to Roman
times (Faure).
An alternative location was suggested by Spratt: Limni, S of Sternes,
where on the peninsula enclosing from the S a shallow, almost circular bay there
are houses, Classical-Roman sherds and tombs of the Roman period; on the ridge
above to the E is a circular tower (lighthouse or watch-tower) of Classical date,
connected to the shore by a fortified road 500 m long. A small fishing settlement
and probably dependent on the Marathi site, it may possibly have been early Minoa.
But it may first have been made into a harbor by the Venetians (Porto Nuovo, 1594).
D. J. Blackman, 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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