Methone Pieria – Submerged Archaic Harbour in Thermaic Gulf
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Archaic to Classical (733 BCE – 354 BCE Philip sack)·Eretrian Greek / Methonean·🇬🇷 Macedonia, Pieria, Methone harbour in Thermaic Gulf, Greece
About
About Methone Pieria – Submerged Archaic Harbour in Thermaic Gulf
Verified – Methone Thermaic Gulf earliest Greek alphabetic harbour (Methone Pieria Eretrian colony 733 BCE) with archaic harbour mole 200 m at 2–3 m due to Thermaic silt? Actually Methone mole 2–3 m subsided Thessaly fault. Excavated Besios 2003– Methone alphabet oldest Greek inscriptions 700 BCE, harbour warehouses.
Why it mattersVerified harbour siltation/subsidence marker
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01myst
Theories
- 01theory
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Archaic
- Period
- Archaic to Classical (733 BCE – 354 BCE Philip sack)
- Culture
- Eretrian Greek / Methonean
- Builders
- Eretrian Greek
- Purpose
- Methone Pieria harbour 2–3 m down Thermaic Gulf
- Abandoned
- Abandoned
- Rediscovered
- Survey
- Excavation
- Excavation ongoing
On the ground
Structures & features
40.4500° N · 22.5800° E · -2 m · 1 mapped feature
methone-pieria-submerged-harbour center
centerMethone Pieria – Submerged Arc
40.4500° N · 22.5800° E