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Some scholars think that this city in Attica corresponds to modern
Gyphtokastro (Paus. 1.38.8-9; 2.6.3; 9.2.1-3). Others identify Gyphtokastro with
the site of ancient Panakton (Thuc. 2.18.1-2; 5.3.5). It has also been suggested
that Eleutherai was located at Myupolis, E of Gyphtokastro, a location proposed
by others as the site of Oinoe. The first of the theories seems perhaps the most
acceptable; in any case the problematic fortified castle of Gyphtokastro was a
site of primary strategic importance on the road that connected Athens, Eleusis,
and Thebes.
The well-preserved circuit wall delimits the summit of a hill, describing
an ellipse ca. 330 m long and half as wide, with an average thickness of 2.6 m.
There are four gates. The towers, of which eight remain at the N, were two stories
high and had doors, windows, and stairways. Three diverse phases in the technique
of the wall have been recognized: polygonal with roughhewn face in the remains
of an isolated construction inside the N flank of the wall; trapezoidal isodomic
with fluted face; and isodomic with smooth face having oblique junctures of the
blocks. The polygonal technique would date from ca. the middle of the 5th c. B.C.
(it has been called Boiotian), and would therefore precede the construction of
the whole circuit, which would then date from the last 30 years of the 4th c.
B.C.
N. Bonacasa, 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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