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One of a number of fortresses in the Dolopian mountains between the
Spercheios Valley and the central plain to the N. They are characteristically
small in circuit, generally little more than 200 m; much of the masonry is primitive
and difficult to date. The ancient names are unknown or disputed, the identification
depending largely on Livy's account of the Aitohian expedition in 198 B.C.
There are two sites, one to the S where a flat hilltop is encircled
by a rough polygonal wall, the other to the W where double-faced rubble-filled
walls present the most imposing remains in the area. Stalhin dated them by a coin
of the 3d c. The masonry is of small regular blocks, drafted on the corners of
the towers. Although all the literary references for it are to the 2d c., these
are probably the remains of the city of Angeia, which served at that time as Dolopian
representative at Delphi, replacing Ktimenai as chief city. Delphic representative
in the 4th c., Ktimenai is known to have been an old city, and is probably to
be located at Anodranitsa, the only site in the region where there are traces
of occupation from the end of the Mycenaean period. Its walls are faced with polygonal
masonry and filled with small stones; Bequignon saw two towers. The original sanctuary
of Omphale, known from inscriptions, was near the boundary between Angeia and
Ktimenal.
At Smokovon a double peak was fortified by a rough polygonal wall
with towers, laid out to take advantage of the natural precipices. An ashlar wall
made an interior division, but the lack of house walls suggests the site was used
only in emergencies or by summer herdsmen. At Kydonia there are three circuits
of walls, again making use of natural scarps. In some parts of the innermost circuit
there are as many as five courses preserved of double-faced wall formed of approximately
rectangular blocks; there are traces of at least two towers. There are ashlar
walls defending the long, narrow acropolis SW of Kaitsa, which Stahlin identified
with the 4th c. city Kypaira. Palaiokastro, near Mavrillon, also had ashlar walls,
now largely gone on the N side; Stahlin dated the remains from coins of the 3d
and 2d centuries. At Papa, a relatively large circuit (more than 400 m) of double-faced
polygonal masonry apparently had two gates; coins were found of the 2d and 3d
c. A.D.
M. H. Mcallister, 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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