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Antirhodos

Ἀντίρροδος

Known · AttestedExistence: AttestedKnown · ExcavatedLocation: Excavated

A small island in the Great Harbour with a palace and a harbour of its own, facing the theatre. It sank with the shoreline through subsidence, earthquakes and the tsunami of 21 July 365 CE.

The evidence: Described by Strabo; located and mapped on the seabed by Franck Goddio's team in the 1990s, with colossal statuary and a sphinx.

Within The Great Harbour.

Antirhodos
On the plan of the city, in its own line: solid where the position is known, dashed where it is conjectured.

This place through time

  1. 21 July 365 CE · The tsunami Known: attested
  2. 1992 and 1994 CE · The drowned harbour and the tower's stones mapped Known: excavated

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