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Asine (/ˈæsɪniː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀσίνη) was an Ancient Greek city on the coast of ancient Argolis on a promontory locally known as Kastraki or Paliokastro near the modern village of Asine and Tolon.
The rocky peninsula measuring 330 x 150 m and rising 52 m above sea level had strategic advantages and its natural sheltered harbour played a key role in its development over the centuries.
Habitation on Kastraki appears for the first time during the 3rd millennium BC in the Early Helladic period. The occupation of the Lower Town was intensive during the Middle Helladic, spreading to cover part of the opposite hill towards the end of this period. Finds from the settlement and chamber tombs of the Mycenaean period show a thriving community which had become rich due to their trade with the palaces of the Argolis and the centres beyond the Aegean.
The city is said to have been founded by the Dryopes, who originally dwelt on Mount Parnassus.
After 1700 BC the houses in the lower town became more elaborate with small courtyards and separated by narrow corridors. Many burials in cist graves, pits and pots located in and around the houses date to this period. The Mycenaean settlement here flourished mainly in or at the end of the 12th century BC. Among the simple houses, "House G" is visible as a megaron-type building with an anteroom, a central pillared hall and various rooms. In the northeast corner of the central hall, a stone bench was found with an assemblage of cult objects, including the terracotta head of a figurine known as the "Lord of Asine".
During the Geometric period, the Lower Town became a cemetery, while the settlement extended to the east of the promontory and to the southeastern slopes of the Barbouna Hill.
Homer mentions it in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, a list of cities that sent ships to the Trojan campaign as part of the Argolic mission under the command of the Diomedes, king of Argos.
The sanctuary of Apollo Pythaeus dating from before 725 BC was found by excavation on the Barbouna hill.
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Asine (/ˈæsɪniː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀσίνη) was an Ancient Greek city on the coast of ancient Argolis on a promontory locally known as Kastraki or Paliokastro near the modern village of Asine and Tolon.
The rocky peninsula measuring 330 x 150 m and rising 52 m above sea level had strategic advantages and its natural sheltered harbour played a key role in its development over the centuries.
Habitation on Kastraki appears for the first time during the 3rd millennium BC in the Early Helladic period. The occupation of the Lower Town was intensive during the Middle Helladic, spreading to cover part of the opposite hill towards the end of this period. Finds from the settlement and chamber tombs of the Mycenaean period show a thriving community which had become rich due to their trade with the palaces of the Argolis and the centres beyond the Aegean.
The city is said to have been founded by the Dryopes, who originally dwelt on Mount Parnassus.
After 1700 BC the houses in the lower town became more elaborate with small courtyards and separated by narrow corridors. Many burials in cist graves, pits and pots located in and around the houses date to this period. The Mycenaean settlement here flourished mainly in or at the end of the 12th century BC. Among the simple houses, "House G" is visible as a megaron-type building with an anteroom, a central pillared hall and various rooms. In the northeast corner of the central hall, a stone bench was found with an assemblage of cult objects, including the terracotta head of a figurine known as the "Lord of Asine".
During the Geometric period, the Lower Town became a cemetery, while the settlement extended to the east of the promontory and to the southeastern slopes of the Barbouna Hill.
Homer mentions it in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, a list of cities that sent ships to the Trojan campaign as part of the Argolic mission under the command of the Diomedes, king of Argos.
The sanctuary of Apollo Pythaeus dating from before 725 BC was found by excavation on the Barbouna hill.
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