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| 2. Vouno, Ag. Georgios. The view of the village of Aulemon |
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| 2. Vouno, Ag. Georgios. The view of the harbour of Diakofti |
To the small number of inscriptions
from the island of Kythera (located South of the Peloponnese )
a new one was added recently. Οn the 31.10.2011 the Kytherian Alekos
Kastrisios, a retired seaman officer, and Phoibos Tsaravopoulos, an ecologist,
while tracing the old footpath that leads
from the sea-side village of Αὐλέμων (Avlemon) up to the small mountain called
Βουνό located in the east side of the island of Kythera and above Αὐλέμων
(phot. 1, 2) noticed a small inscribed fragment.
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| 3. Vouno. The location, where the inscription was found |
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| 4. The old footpath and the find spot of the inscription |
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| 5. Skafidi (an ancient quarry by the village of Aulemon). View of Vouno and the monastery of Ag. Georgios |
It
was lying on the ground on the west side of the mountain close to the monastery
of Ἅι-Γιώργης (Ag. Georgios), just beneath the dining hall of the monastery
(phot. 3, 4, 5).
Some
years ago a Minoan peak-sanctuary was excavated there 1. Strong indication
for the existence of the sanctuary was the discovery close to the monastery of
few Minoan bronze figurines by the enthusiastic and tireless pioneer Adonis Kyrou.
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| 6. The new inscription |
The inscription is cut on a
reddish marble (antico rosso) with small letters (phot. 6); some twelve very
fragmentary lines survive. From the letter forms it could be dated to the late
2nd cent. or to the 1st cent. B.C. The text is too fragmentary for one to say
with safety what is its content; perhaps it is part of a metrical inscription
related to the cult of a deity.
It is important
to notice that in the area of the monastery (phot.7) sherds of the classical
and Hellenistic period have been found, which could be interpreted as belonging
to dedicatory vases and pots. The inscription will be published in the near
future.
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| 7. The location of Vouno in relation to Cape Maleas |
Tsaravopoulos – A. P. Matthaiou
1See the recent publication of the late Yannis Sakellarakis, Κύθηρα. Τὸ Μινωϊκὸ ἱερὸ κορυφῆς στὸν Ἅγιο Γεώργιο στὸ Βουνό, Greek Archaelogical Society, Athens 2011.
πηγή: Ελληνική Επιγραφική Εταιρεία
http://www.greekepigraphicsociety.org.gr
