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EpBer apwydc xai_ th Modreia AuoTuxag HExet THE BEV ddENKE Tpogoxt Tod npérei, G6 ToUG 4p- nOBI0ug, Ty iiattepomra TOV ouvEnkay Tov GvaoKagav ors vnoi aUTS’AN GpKETE xpovia ExKpenEt alma pas vid aepoperoyedonan Tav ApxaOTHTaV TOU vnMOD, Evd ouSepia navinon mfpaye Koya Grav mp6 Su0 étav AATHOHE te Lt kof Sardvn yid tiv dyopd us pa- diomAc@POVUY (CB) NOU, Smug gavn- ke and TS md TVW Keiuevo Geo pouvrat énokdtag dvayxaia vie Tv érukowovia us Ty dnévavtt oteptd ote va uewsoov ard éddxwoto ot KivOuvot Tig anoatoAne Kai tov EU BiGdtoypagio Ba Bivoun pia émoyh tiv kupiorépuy exer FR BOSANQUET - T. CURRELY, Dio and the Tomples of Detoan Zous-, BSA 40,0. 70 eee M. GUAROUCGI, IC. 95 (9 AL, LEONARD Jr, Culms evsteds Ach Class. 24 (Rare 1972).0. 251 KE NI. TAMAQAKHE. » Apxaiohovind Opt pata ovo Kougovion Brteiag=. AWAABEND 2a (1978), 0.169 6 cE NI MAMAAAKHE, =Kougovtor Zmreiog Té xpound Tay Svgoeagovs, ANaHGE 235 (1978), 0. 260 «ee, NIT. TAMAMAKHE. ~'Apyato @éarpo orb Koupovnot Znreings, AAA X 1 (1976). 2 Tree M. REINHOLD. “History of Pupon. Latomus rou 118, 1970, TAB. SPRATT. Travels and Researches in Cate. London 1855. tou. 10, 249 « pNHétww ord Epnuowiot até. Auto 16 TeAsuTalo Hat! pe Sid(popa drra Brag A ériBadASuevn émtoKeuh Too omtriod toi) KaTaUAIGLON. fy E009 Aion mAeoduevou nou va Rapauéver ord voi wati ue Tv GnooTOM, ye Kae EvBexouevo KAN. UnmpEav A al- Tia Gore 16 1981 avahoviZouevor tig ev80veG pag Gév UnedBuvoL THE GNOOTOAAG Va uh ouvexiooune TG avaoxapes yd mpiorn eopd pera TE 1976. Tov gerivd xpdvo énavANaue Kai eAnizoune. Koufonisi Island: «Delos of the Libyan Seam. Koutonist island, covered today with sand and bushes les close to the southeast shore ff Crete. From the Middle - Ages untl today Is nowhere relerred that the island has ever been inhabited permanently However scat- tered ancient remnants, drew the attention ot the english admiral and traveller 7.8. Spratt in the mid - 19th century. His itinerary and: visit was repeated by the english archaeol ists Bosanquet and Cureiy in 1303 and by the amencan A, Leonard yin 1970. The de- finite conalusion al the above ravellors rea: ched was that Koulonsi could be identified with the island Letki of antiquity for sien the people of llanos and Hierapyina were con- fending. as itis reterred in the famous ‘inscription of Magnetes- of 112-111 BC Excavations and arcnaeological research have since 1976 taken the responsiblity to answer to the questions almost innate and ‘consequent fo the above conclusion and te result is undoubtedly impressive An entre theater nat could have housed a thousand spectators: a temple stil contal- ning fragments from the colossal cult statue {wo private houses with 17 rooms decorated with mosaics and coloutul walls: a system Supplying water to the city through a series fof vaulted cisterns and bult pipes: a minoan acropolis: cematenas and last but not least the city of Lefk sett Thus. slowly but steadiy is unveiled the shott but impressive presence of this small island nearby east Crete. Judging from the sofar finds we can say that Leki being one of the major contars of processing and tra- ding purple. a symbol of authonty and aco homie power soon bacame the object of rivalry amoag its neighbours. A series of d: plomatic intrigue and fighting had occured over the dominance of this arotc isiand. La- ter when its sources of prospenty were oe pleted the people of Lefki were exterminated through arms and fie. an invasion in the at century A.D. turned the histone island into ashes ‘On the basis ofthe existing ruins, the impor: tance it had for its neighbours and the fact that it was never again inhabited ater ts de- struction we may describe Koufonsi by quo ting a western journalist as «Delos of the Ui yan Sea 6