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LEMNOS (LIMNOS) (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
ERESSOS (Ancient city) LESVOS
The Aeolic dialect
. . Three of its inscriptions are of great importance--one found at Mitylene recording the return of certain exiles in the time of Alexander the Great (C. I. G. 2166), one found at Pordoselena (C. I. G. 2166 c.), and a third found at Eresus (edited by Conze and Sauppe).
KAMINIA (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The column of Kaminia is the first written part that was found during
of the Pelasgic period on Lemnos. It was found in the wall of the church of Saint
Alexander in the village of Kaminia in 1886 and was published that same year at
the bulletin of the French Archaeological School in Athens. Fifteen years later
it was found in Egypt where it was bought by Argirios Moshidis and Vasilios Apostolidis
The column is right angled made of yellow pore like stone with dimensions of 0.95x0.40x0.14
meters and carved on it there is the head of a warrior who holds a weapon up high.
Around it there are cared curled two inscriptions. One around the head of the
warrior and the other around the narrow side of the column. It is written in the
Greek alphabet and in an nearly Greek language i.e. in an ancestral style of Ancient
Greek which was the language of the Tirini Pelasgi as the inhabitants of Lemnos
were called during that period. It is written in the same language in which the
Eteocrecian inscriptions were written and discovered in Crete around the end of
the 19th century in the town of Presi. John Thomopoulos in his book "Pelasgika"
dates the first inscription before 510 BC when the Athenian conquest of Lemnos
took place. The second inscription he dates after 510 BC.
This text is cited Jan 2004 from the Limnos Medical Association URL below, which contains images.
LEMNOS (LIMNOS) (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
Many coins were found all over the island which had various figures
and themes on them from which we can deduct useful information regarding the history
of Lemnos. There were two mints, one in Ifestia and the other in Mirina, the two
largest cities of the island. On the coins found in Ifestia there are the gods
they worshiped Ifestos, Kaveri and the Great Goddess Lemnos. Lit torches that
obviously refer to the torch-races held in honour of Ifestos as well as metal
tools that relate to the god. On other coins we see the ram (stockbreeding), the
grape (wine production), the symbol of prosperity or the head of Dionysos (Dionysian
worship). Imprinted on other coins is the radiated head of Apollo as the god of
the sun or of Athena. Finally there are coins with the god Hermes or Kaveri on
them.
CHIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
Chios [3 Coins]-Perseus Coin Catalog
LESVOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
HERAION (Ancient sanctuary) SAMOS
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos
Found at Samos, Heraion, northeast of the large temple
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos.
Findspot: Excavated at Samos, Heraion, on the Sacred Way (Northeast of the Chapel) (in 1912)
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos.
Findspot: Excavated at Samos, Heraion
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos
Excavated at Samos, Heraion (the lower part was found in 1912 North of the Chapel, while the upper part was found in 1913, built into a later house on the Sacred Way).
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos.
Findspot: Excavated at Samos, Heraion (found in 1926)
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos.
Findspot: Found at Samos, Heraion, on the Sacred Way. The upper part was found in a later wall, in 1914.
Collection : Archaeological Museum of Samos.
Findspot: Excavated at Samos, Heraion
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos
Findspot: Probably from Samos, east of the Sanctuary
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos. Excavated at Samos, Heraion.
Collection: Archaeological Museum of Samos.
PYTHAGORIO (Small town) SAMOS
Samos, Archaeological Collection of Pythagoreion
Findspot: Found at Samos, West of Potokaki
EMBORIOS (Port) CHIOS
Collection: Museum of Art and Archaeology, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
R. M. Cook (1973) dated this oinochoe, and suggested an origin in or near Chios. (Emborio?)
Indeed, several elements of decoration, when taken together, support this: the white slip, the pinkish-buff clay, the sparse and neatly drawn filling ornament -- particularly the pendent oval and the hatched triangle -- the goat's reserved belly-stripe with interior row of dots, the broken cable pattern on the neck -- especially as it hooks from right to left -- the extensive use of rays, and the size and configuration of the oinochoe. Chian pottery of this period is of consistent, high quality; it has finesse and control
POLIOCHNI (Prehistoric settlement) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
A treasure of gold jewelry belongs to one of the last phases of the
settlement. It was found hidden in a vase and consists of rings, earrings, bracelets,
necklaces. Some of the artifacts were found entire, others were broken. All of
them are similar to those of the so-called Priam's Treasure, revealed in Troy,
which lies exactly opposite Poliochni, in Asia
Minor.
This text (extract) is cited June 2003 from the Lemnos
Provincial Government tourist pamphlet (1997).
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