KEYNOTE. EXTRAURBAN SANCTUARIES OF EUBOEA ISLAND: STATE OF RESEARCH
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2021-02-22

Euboea, the second largest island of Greece after Crete, is still not very well explored from the archaeological point of view. This is also true for a number of extraurban sanctuaries which in most cases were known only through written and epigraphical sources. The Greek geographer Strabon gives us a list of seven important sanctuaries, among them the sanctuaries of Apollon near Orobiai, Marmarion and Tamynai, the sanctuaries of Poseidon at Geraistos and at Aigai, the sanctuary of Zeus at the Cap Kenaion and the sanctuary of Artemis Amarynthia near Eretria. Some others need to be added to this list, such as the sanctuary of Artemis Prosioa near Cap Artemision. Most of these sanctuaries have never been excavated and in several cases we don’t even know their exact location. Recently, the Swiss Archaeological School in Greece and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Euboea identified the site of the sanctuary of Artemis Amarynthia and the still ongoing excavations will throw a new light on our knowledge of the sacred landscape of the island of Euboea. The aim of this keynote is to give a state of the research concerning the Euboean sanctuaries and, through the example of the discovery of the Artemision of Amarynthos, to show what we might expect in future research programs.


Author(s): Reber, Karl (University of Lausanne; Swiss archaeological School in Greece)