Modern Description:
On the basis of Polyb. 1.9.7, Longane is located near Mylai, and the river Longane (ibid.) may be the river Loitanos of Diod. 22.23. The city has been tentatively identified with the considerable remains of a settlement on Monte Ciappa, above modern Rodi and Milici, where C5 evidence of Hellenisation is found in the form of ashlar technique in the circuit wall, a rectangular building complex outside the walls (perhaps a sanctuary), and, finally, mortuary evidence (Ryolo di Maria (1950–51); Massa (1991); Bernabò Brea and Carettoni (2000)). However, other sites with urban remains have been put forward as candidates for the site (Wilson (1988) 125). No Archaic or Classical source calls Longane a polis, but the kerykeion (supra) and the Greek-style coins (infra) suggest that it was a polis and suggest Hellenisation as well. (Hansen, Inv. No. 35) Wikidata ID: Q29788240 Trismegistos Geo: 58899 DARE: 30167
Info: Hansen, Inv. 2004
Sample descriptions, a test fraction of the monumental Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford 2004) of M. Hansen et al., for mobile use only.
