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Modern Description: At Katevasies on the southern edge of the plain (1.5km north [1.8 NNW] of the village of Mati), a round tower/guard post on a pyramidal base lay on the ancient road from Orchomenos to ancient Pheneos and close to the sink-holes at the base of Mavrovouni. The structure was preserved to a height of 2.8m (the estimated total height is over 20m) and the base to 2.1m (of a probable original 2.65m); the diameter of the base is 16m and that of the tower 10.5m. The tower was first located in the 1990s, but cleaning revealed the unusual pyramidal base (two parallels, at Elliniko and Lygourio in the Argolid, have orthogonal towers). The form of the base should be associated with siege activities of the period, as a means of protection from a ram or siege ladders. Excavation indicated a construction date in the last quarter of the fourth century BC. (Archaeology in Greece Online, report 4510)

Info: Chronique des Fouilles

(Archaeology in Greece Online)

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