KERINTHOS
Euboia, Greece.
Listed in
Homer's catalogue of ships, the city was known to Ptolemy and Strabo, though it was no longer of any importance, having early lost its independence to Histiaia.
The site has been identified with a hill N of modern
Mantudi, near the Bay of Peleki, at the mouth of the
Boudoros river. The acropolis drops abruptly to the
sea in a 30 m cliff. The fortification wall on the N side
is of irregular polygonal blocks roughly dressed, and
probably belongs to the 6th c. city, the destruction of
which Theognis attributed to the Kypselids. The wall
on the S side is double-faced, of trapezoidal blocks in
courses, with a square tower of regular isodomic masonry: these sections are probably Hellenistic. Pernier
reported the remains of a large rectangular building on
the highest ground, with other buildings of rough limestone blocks, along streets laid out according to the
cardinal points of the compass. No finds have been reported from the Roman period.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Theog. 891-94; W. Vischer,
Kl. Schr.
(1877) 597
P; L. Pernier in
ASAtene III 1916-20 (1921)
273-76
I; L. Sackett et al. in
BSA 61 (1966) 43f
M.
M. H. MCALLISTER
