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Modern Description: Today the main island of Arkí has four churches, about 50 resident souls, five cows, one horse and a large number of goats. Arkí's deeply indented port bears the grand Italian name, Porto Augusta. Some few marble fragments have been found on Arkí (now in the Monastery Museum on Patmos) but little else can be added to our knowledge of the island in Antiquity. Pottery and obsidian from a prehistoric settlement has, however, been found on the hill of Kastro, to the northeast of the harbour. The hill is crowned by the church of the Panaghia Pantanoússa today and is reached by a ruined stone-paved mule-track which leads up to the left side of a conspicuous long wall. There are the ruins of some well-built stone houses, with bread ovens still in place; their walls blend mimetically with the barren rocky landscape. From here a path, at first to the northwest, leads eventually down to the northeast shore at the long inlet of Kapsali Bay.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkoi
Wikidata ID: Q673553

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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