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Multi-periodSite Name: Cylindroi Alternative Name: MiloiCountry: Greece
NOTE: This site is 40.697 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Greek Islands Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Karystos Nearest Village: Miloi
Latitude: 38.037774N Longitude: 24.446932E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Colossal monolithic pillars at Kylindroi (cylinders) located on mount Karystos at 600 meters altitude on the island of Euboea. The site was an ancient quarry of Hellenistic, Greco-Roman and Byzantine period, with 8 pillars lying on the ground.
The biggest has a height of 11 meters and weighs over 45 tons. It was a great technological achievement to have the columns dragged all the way down to the sea-port of Karystos and have them loaded on a ship in a balanced way to be sailed away to Hellenic colonies as far as Libya (temple of Zeus, Kyrene), to Rome (temple of Antonios and Faustina, house of Julius Caesar, to Thessalonica for the Church of Saint Demetrius and to Constantinoupolis for the Hagia Sophia and Saint Apostles church.
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