Sur les traces de l'Artémision d'Amarynthos près d'Érétrie

Medieval Ship Graffiti from Amarynthos, Euboea, Greece

“…Several hints led Denis Knoepfler to the conclusion that the extra‐urban Eretrian sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia should be sought here (Knoepfler, ) and since 2007 (mainly 2012–2016) four buildings of archaic to Late Hellenistic date, including a doric stoa, have been discovered at the foot of the west slope of the hill (Knoepfler et al. , ).…”

Reconstructing mid-to-recent Holocene paleoenvironments in the vicinity of ancient Amarynthos (Euboea, Greece)

“…The Artemision was used for the display of public decrees and statues for benefactors. Once a year, the Eretrians gathered in Amarynthos to celebrate the Artemisia, which was the most important religious festival of the Eretrians (Knoepfler, 1988). Inscriptions and other artefacts linked with the cult of Artemis have been found near the Palaeoekklissies hill (Figure 2), but the exact location of the sanctuary has never been found, despite more than a century of topographical research and archeological surveys.…”

“…Some ancient remains, located ca. 100 m from the modern shoreline (Fachard, Theurillat, Léderrey, & Knoepfler, 2008;Knoepfler, 1988), have been tentatively associated with the sanctuary, but decisive evidence is lacking. Therefore, our geoarcheological study contributes to this search by reconstructing the palaeoenvironment of Amarynthos, highlighting landscape evolution as well as the position of potential swamps, generally associated with sanctuaries of Artemis (Ghilardi et al, 2013).…”