Posted on 09/09/2024 9:42:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In 2003 and 2004, ESAG, in collaboration with Greek authorities, conducted a geophysical survey around Paleoekklisies Hill to identify traces of buried ancient buildings. In 2006, they received a permit to dig in the area of their survey that seemed to have the greatest potential. The team uncovered ancient building material, houses, and graves; however, they were from the wrong time period. There was a long history of settlement on Paleoekklisies Hill dating back to the third millennium b.c. In fact, in the second millennium b.c., the site appears to have been called Amarynthos. A clay tablet found in the ancient city of Thebes that is inscribed in the Bronze Age Linear B script seems to identify the site as a-ma-ru-to, an earlier form of Amarynthos...
The first major discovery came in the form of a seemingly pedestrian artifact—a simple terracotta roof tile... they are commonplace. This one, however, was not. As archaeologists cleaned the dirt-caked tile, they noticed it was stamped with a tantalizing word—Artemidos, meaning "of or belonging to Artemis" in ancient Greek...
Shortly thereafter, as they were excavating a shallow well nearby, they came across a staircase. The stairs leading to the bottom of the well had been constructed during the second century a.d. using ancient stelas and statue bases that had once stood nearby. Some of these contained dedicatory inscriptions to Artemis, Apollo, and Leto. One stela bore a decree announcing a political union between Eretria and the neighboring city of Styra. The last line of the inscription explicitly stated that the stela displaying the agreement was to be erected in a particular place—the Sanctuary of Artemis at Amarynthos.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...
The sanctuary's Temple of Artemis, which was originally built in the late eighth century b.c. and reconstructed in the late sixth century b.c., managed to survive the construction of modern villas directly atop it.Courtesy Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece
Hunting.....Artemis......pun?.................
Ya don’t want to interrupt her bath.
Nor Zeus..................
Jim West could find him.
I see what you did there ;)
Must be different than the Temple of Artemis known to be in Ephesus, Turkey. Only a couple of pillars were still standing when I was there around ten years ago...destroyed long ago by earthquake IIRC.
Depends on Artie’s disguise.
Upgrades missile units
I warned the Styrans about hanging with the Eretrian boys, with their ouzo parties and their Dionysian orgies, but would they listen? Noooo.
According to a notice in Der Kleine Pauly by Ernst Meyer, Amarynthos was a deme of Eretria on Euboea with a sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia and a great annual festival. See Strabo 10,1,10 p. 448 and Livy 35.38.3. There was also a cult of Artemis Amarysia in the Attic deme of Athmonon. Amarynthos was located at H. Vathia about 10 km east of Eretria.
But looking at a map of Greece it looks like the ancient name of Amarynthos has been restored.
Eretria just wanted to unite with Styra to get access to their Styrafoam. They had a monopoly.
isn’t that temple located in the home island kingdom of wonder woman?
No wonder those triremes floated so well. I never knew.
the site as a-ma-ru-to, which is where we can nearby, the village of true-amarillo... the birth place of the Henry Weinhard’s Longhorn Ranch on the way to Saragosa. It was bought out by Stuart Angus so they could expand the world’s stock of Black Angus four legged Steak growth and storage... and manufacturing.
ROFL... by the way did you guess what I want for dinner? ... I want steak.
“Shut that bloody bazouki off!”
Yup, it’s implied in the article that the reason for the renaming is the discoveries associated with this.
map from the article:
https://archaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SO2024-Artemis-Greece-Euboea-Eretria-Map.jpg
LOL
Gesundheit!
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