Inscription from 600 BC. About two inches high. At Delos, statue platform.
Mykonos. (Delos... for some who elected that option.)
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My first Greek islands! (Delos a ferry ride from Mykonos, where we were put ashore.) First stop on our cruise.
Our marvelous "home aways from home", Le Levant. And the crew were as stylish and first class as her lines. (And, in the harbour, at the left, the little ferry which took me across to Delos.)
On the right: Delos. Uninhabited today, but at its height: 25,000. Climbed to the top... 367 feet... farther than it looks, and I had a mild knee injury, but worth it for the overview of the site. From the ferries at the left to the museum, upper right: almost 600 yards.
Me, at the temple you can just see on the photo, part way up the hill. The temple is nearly in the middle of the photo, at the boundary between the grass and rock "bands". Bottom right of grass "triangle". (Delos was almost as fascinating for the ecology on display as for the archaeology!)
This gives you an idea of the color of the seas in the Aegean.
The inscription that spans the top of all of these "chronological tour" pages is on the (borken) huge marble statue base you see here. Our guide told us that it is one of the oldest inscriptions surviving in Greece, dating, she said, from about 600BC.
A 27' high kouros of Apollo stode on it.
The base and kouros have proven difficult to research online. Best information to date:
http://eidola.eu/images/736
and
http://eidola.eu/images/1109
The inscription is just below the inclined surface at the top of the face between the lady in pink and the man in the black tee-shirt.
To the right, you see one of the several efficient and well run ways by which we were ferried to and from our ship.
Photo kindly supplied by Jack and Rosslynne
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