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On the N coast. The ruins of a small town identified by Hogarth with
this site cover the Moulos headland, E of Keryneia. The necropolis lies S. The
small bay to the E may have served as an anchorage.
Nothing is known of the founding of the town but it was occupied for
the first time during the Late Bronze Age. Among surface finds of this period
are fragments of Minoan and Mycenaean pottery. It is mentioned by Ptolemy the
geographer but otherwise nothing else is known of its history. It seems to have
flourished from Hellenistic to Early Christian times when it was gradually abandoned
after the first Arab raids of A.D. 647. The town site is now under cultivation
and is thus far unexcavated.
K. Nicolaou, 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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