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Modern Description: Unfenced, unsignposted. The ancient polis is extended on two hills, one lower to the N, dominated today by the ruins of a Frankish tower, and another one higher to the S, the most prominent location of the ancient city. A fountain can be seen today below the ruins of the tower, and it most likely marks the place of a water source in antiquity also. The two hills of the ancient polis of Koroneia are situated in the middle of two valleys, being the end part of a ridge which cuts the larger valley into two longitudinal sections (Butsurati). The Western one is wider, while the Eastern valley is narrower, and runs steeply down from the slopes of Helicon which constitute the Labethrion/Tilphousion ridge. There are remains of an undated polygonal circuit of walls around the acropolis, enclosing an area of 38ha (Fossey 1988: 325-6); another circuit of walls of an unknown date enclosing the lower town could still be seen in the 19th century (Frazer 1913: 70). Small excavations carried out in the 1970s by the ephoreia (Spyropoulos) on the acropolis at different spots in the city area, recovered shallow archaeological strata. According to the excavator, the remains were disturbed by erosion and heavy cultivation, and although no prehistoric or Classical structures or deposits were found, structures datable to the LR - Early Christian period were. Surface sherds (whose density on the ground is incredibly high, especially in some areas) indicate the presence of an urban settlement there since the G period, and excavations conducted by Pappadakis (BCH 1923: 521-2) on the acropolis E slope attest the presence of the R agora as well as structures referring to a LR settlement and cemetery (Emeri Farinetti dissertation)
Wikidata ID: Q593295
Trismegistos Geo: 33356
Manto: 9651955

Info: Princeton Encyclopedia

(Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, from Perseus Project)

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