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Excavations at Kato Phana in Chios

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

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῾῾ φάναι, λιμὴν βαθύς , καὶ νεως ᾿ Απόλλωνος καὶ ἄλσος φοινίκων.᾿᾿ Though the anchorage at Kato Phana is not as good as Strabo implies, there is no doubt that here was the site of his temple, a site which has preserved, with only a slight distortion, its ancient name. From other sources we learn that the Chiots were defeated by the Athenians in a battle there during the summer of 512 b.c. and that the wine grown on the spot was much appreciated. Numerous arrow-heads may or may not be relics of the battle, and a struggling vineyard among sandhills forms a slender link with the nobler vineyards of the past.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1935

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page 138 note 1 Strabo XIV i 35. The modern pronunciation of the name is Phaná.

page 138 note 2 The evidence is summarized by Kourouniotis, Δελτ. i. 73.Google Scholar

page 138 note 3 Thucydides viii 24, 3; Virgil, Georgie ii 98.Google Scholar

page 138 note 4 i 64 ff., ii 190 ff.

page 138 note 5 J.H.S. xliv 203 ff.

page 139 note 1 I should like to add my warmest thanks to Mr. Madias, Mr. Argenti and Mr. Choremes for making our visit to the island both easy and pleasant. Mr. Madias, assisted by Mr. Pappaiannoudes, gave us invaluable help in inspecting sites and working at the Chios Museum.

page 139 note 2 The abbreviations used in this paper, in addition to those normally employed by the B.S.A., are as follows: —

Aegina = Furtwängler Aegina, das Heiligtum der Aphaia.

Ephesus = Hogarth Excavations at Ephesus.

Lindos = Blinkenberg Lindos.

Milet = Wiegand Milet.

Naukratis = Petrie and Gardner Naukratis.

Sardis = Butler Sardis.

page 139 note 3 i 78, 79, Fig. 14; ii 190, 191, Fig. i and α–β, γ–δ, ε–Ʒ on Fig. 3.

page 140 note 1 Milet I viii 10–12, pls. i, xiii 2.

page 140 note 2 Ibid. 14–15, 119, Figs. 5, 6, pl. ii. Other steps, ibid. 34, 35, Figs. 24, 25.

page 147 note 1 A few Byzantine graves were found close to the basilica itself.

page 147 note 2 This rises steeply on the south, owing to the slope of the hill.

page 148 note 1 The size of this and of the remaining objects can be seen from the scales on the photographs, and it is not worth while to quote measurements.

page 149 note 1 See above, pp. 59, 88 f., 119 f.

page 149 note 2 From the M deposit.

page 150 note 1 Discussed by Hopkinsem, and Baker-Penoyre, , J.H.S. xxii 53Google Scholar: see especially ibid. 52, Fig. 6. Mr. Brock has called my attention to this parallel.

page 150 note 2 B.M. Jewellery 96, Fig. 21.

page 150 note 3 Ephesus 148–9 pl. xviii 34, 36, 38, 39, 41; Lindos 118–9 pl xii 271, 273–5: Gärtringen, Hiller vonThera II 298Google Scholar, Fig. 488 e, f (these must be ear-rings in spite of the author's doubts): Aegina pl. cxvi 50: Olympia IV 184 pl. lxvi no. 1155.

page 153 note 1 I am indebted to Mr. E. S. G. Robinson and Mr. J. Walker for identifying these coins.

page 153 note 2 In the British Museum. Inv. 64. 10–7. 762 and 64. 10–7. 634.

page 154 note 1 This example is pierced as well as decorated.

page 155 note 1 No. 62 on pl. 32 is a glass bead from the upper strata. For no. 64, see p. 14. No. 61, a thin blue paste intaglio, bears a much defaced head.

page 155 note 2 I am also indebted to Professor Newberry, who, on a previous occasion, had examined the reproductions of the scarabs. His conclusions agree with those published below.

page 157 note 1 A.M. liv ii, Fig. 2 no. i. Was it imported from Chios?

page 157 note 2 Istanbul, Inv. 6589. I am indebted to Mr. R. M. Cook's notes for this parallel.

page 157 note 3 Except possibly no. 37.

page 158 note 1 So too the record of no. 26.

page 163 note 1 The stone examples are nos. 65–67, 73, 74.