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Antissa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

W. Lamb
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Antissa, now Ovriokastro, 16 km. south-west of Methymna, is, of all ancient sites in the island of Lesbos, the loveliest and the most isolated. On the land side it is cut off by the lower slopes of the massif which culminates in Mt. Ordymnos; on the sea side it is unsheltered and provided with the shallowest anchorage. Nowadays, a small caïque can only call during the hours when the wind drops: long ago, before the change of coast level, deeper water may have provided easier approach.

Koldewey has proved the identification of Ovriokastro with Antissa beyond dispute, and must be referred to for general discussion and for comments on the Genoese and Turkish fortifications. For our own purposes, the site, which is extensive, may be divided into four parts : (1) The Castro. This is a round, hilly promontory, almost separated from the mainland by the mediaeval moat, and built over with Genoese and Turkish walls.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 31 , November 1931 , pp. 166 - 178
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1931

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page 166 note 1 Koldewey, , Die Antiken Baureste der Insel Lesbos, p. 19, Pls. 6 and 7Google Scholar.

page 166 note 2 Op. cit., p. 20, Pls. 6A and 7, 1.

page 167 note 1 See above, pp. 157–162.

page 167 note 2 See J.H.S. lii, pp. 1 ffGoogle Scholar. It is uncertain when Grey Wares first started on the island.

page 169 note 1 I have also postponed discussing the mediaeval wares, and the red domestic wares of the classical periods, which form an interesting series. The main groups of pottery can only be dealt with very briefly here, though much could be added to what was said about Wares, Grey in J.H.S. lii, pp. 1 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 169 note 2 Cf. S.S. 3251–3276 and 3317 from Troy.

page 170 note 1 They occurred in the trenches O and A.F., and on the Acropolis behind the wall mentioned on p. 172, but not on the hill where the tombs were.

page 171 note 1 The most we can say is that such motives as can be distinguished seem early rather than late, and that the imports may go back to 1370 B.C.

page 171 note 2 In J, however, further west, nearly all the sherds in the lower strata were waterworn.

page 171 note 3 Noack, , Eleusis, pp. 11, 16; Pl. 20 aGoogle Scholar.

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page 172 note 1 Koldewey, op. cit., Pl. 6.

page 172 note 2 For this class of polygonal wall, see p. 171.

page 174 note 1 Blinkenberg, , Fibules grecques et orientales, pp. 212, 213, type XIIGoogle Scholar.

page 174 note 2 Idem, op. cit., pp. 96–99.

page 175 note 1 The measurements were as follows:—Southern tomb: remaining length 1·99 m., width ·64 m., present depth ·24 m. Northern tomb: length 2·10 m., breadth ·86 m., present depth ·33 m.

page 175 note 2 The measurements of the eastern coffin were as follows:—length ·96 m., breadth S. end ·34 m., breadth N. end ·37 m., present depth ·20 m. Western clay coffin, length 1·52 m., width ·58 m., present depth ·14 m.

page 176 note 1 Internal measurements:—length 1·70 m.: breadth at east end ·50 m.: breadth at west end ·46 m.: depth ·55–49· m.

page 178 note 1 Gardner, , Naukratis, II, pp. 47, 48, 65, 66, Pl. xxiGoogle Scholar.

page 178 note 2 Cf. Kretschmer, , Die Griechischen Vaseninschriften, p. 4, note 2Google Scholar.

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