Lamponeia
Lamponeia (
History
Lamponeia is located at an altitude of 565 m on the long crest of a mountain which runs SW-NE for a length of 3 km in parallel with a narrow valley to the north which connected
Strabo, drawing on the mid-5th century BCE historian Hellanicus of Lesbos, considered Lamponeia to be an Aeolian Greek settlement in origin and a secondary foundation of Assos.[6] In the 5th century BCE the city was a member of the Delian League and paid Athens a modest tribute of 1,000 drachmas (on one occasion in 430//29 1,400 drachmas) as part of the Hellespontine district.[7] In the late 5th and early 4th century BCE the city minted bronze coinage, but thereafter disappears from the historical record.[8] It is possible that soon after the city was incorporated into Assos and the site above Kozlu abandoned.[9] Late Roman and middle Byzantine period finds suggest that the site was reoccupied in this period, perhaps as a defensive measure against piracy and brigandage.[10]
References
Bibliography
- J. M. Cook, The Troad: An Archaeological and Topographical Study (Oxford, 1973) 261–4.
- S. Mitchell, 'Lamponeia' in M. H. Hansen and T. H. Nielsen (eds), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford, 2004) no. 783.