ITANOS - 2000
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
1784
Année de l'opération
2000
Chronologie
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Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Itanos
Itanos
Notices et opérations liées
Description
Itanos. N. Coutsinas (EfA) reports on the defence systems employed by this city-state (Fig. 1), based on work undertaken during the 1990s and the early to mid 2000s. On the west acropolis, traces of walls were found at the west, and on the east acropolis, a rectangular Roman tower is constructed of dressed sandstone masonry. Probably the two fortifications were erected at the same time. Three smaller towers - two on the east acropolis and one at the west by a road - may be part of a network of such watch- towers (Fig. 2). On the southern hill, the line of the wall may be traced on four sides, though the north is less reliable. Its construction is typical: facings filled with rubble and earth. It has rectangular towers at the corners; at the southeast is a fortified enclosure with a guardhouse (10m x 6m). The characteristic construction of the southwest tower suggests that it was built between the mid fourth to mid third century BC, perhaps by the Ptolemaic garrison under the admiral Patroclus for Ptolemy Philadelphus (ca. 270−260 BC). Surveys of the wider territory of Itanos in 2005-2006 produced 107 sites (Fig. 3) dating from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period, with most being Late Minoan and Hellenistic. Eight watch-towers were visited, from which the sea is visible as well as a sight-line back into the central plain. Some, e.g. Vai, had associated structures of some size (17m x 10m); others (Figs 4-6), e.g. Karoumes, had antecedents going back to Minoan times.
Auteur de la notice
Don EVELY
Références bibliographiques
AEK 1 (2010), 188-99
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Date de création
2011-02-07 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-06 10:50:04
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ The city-state of ancient Itanos.
Fig. 2/ The watch-towers of ancient Itanos.
Fig. 3/ Locations mapped during the surface survey of Itanos.
Fig. 4/ City-states of eastern Crete.
Fig. 5/ Xerokambos: Pharmakokephalo and Kastri.
Fig. 6/ Kstri, Koutsoulopetres, Trypitos, Siteia.