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The Ancient Docks on the Promontory of Sunion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

E. J. André Kenny
E. J. André Kenny
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Shell Mex House, London
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In the definitive publication of the Sunion site by Stais in ᾿Αρχαιολογικὴ᾿Εφημερίς 1917, 168 ff., and again in τὸ Σούνιον scant reference is made to the remains of docks and shipsheds on the promontory. They are dismissed with a few words in the text, and indicated in the most summary fashion on the plan drawn by Orlandos. This is not altogether surprising in view of the overshadowing interest of the temples and fortifications. It might have been supposed, however, that a full treatment of the walls and defences of the site would include some descriptions of the docks, and some attempt to fit them into the chronology of the fortress.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 42 , November 1947 , pp. 194 - 200
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1947

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References

page 197 note 1 Cf. Cavallari and Holm, Top. Siracusa, p. 30; Thuc. vii, 22 and 25; Diod. xiv, 42, νεωσοί´κους πολυτελεῑς . . . τοὺς πλεἰστους δύο υαῦς δεχομένους; Xen. Hell. IV, iv, 12.