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Kos Astypalaia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

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From the modern town of Kos, on the site of the ancient capital at the north-east extremity of the island, to the village of Kephalos at the southwest end is a ride of eight hours.

The village stands on a chalky plateau which beyond the isthmus marks the beginning of the mountain district of south-west Kos. This in turn is a repetition on a smaller scale of the mountain region, at the other end of the island, which forms the lofty termination to the long central tableland. The highest points of the mountain district are towards the south-east where the fall to the sea is very rapid. The highest neighbouring peak, Mount Ziní, is about an hour distant from the village in a south-easterly direction, while all that lies to the north-west of the main range is high pastoral country with many torrent beds.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1898

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References

page 95 note 1 Visited September, 1898.

page 96 note 1 cf Arch. Ztg. 38, Taf. I, the Kybele-statue of the Mus. Pio dementino and, with a close resemblance to ours, the headless statue of Rhea in the precinct of the temple of the Magna Mater on the Palatine at Rome.

page 96 note 2 An archaic terracotta I saw in private possession at Kephalos probably represented a seated Rhea.

page 96 note 3 The Kalymnos oilpress, together with a plan of the Greek fortress at Emporio, has since been published by Paton, W. R. and Myres, J. L., J.H.S. 1898, p. 212Google Scholar, fig. 4, and p. 213, fig. 5.

page 98 note 1 Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, xiii, p, 558.

page 99 note 1 Reisen, ii. p. 89.

page 99 note 2 Ibid. iv. 23–4.