MEKYBERNA
Chalkidike, Greece.
The port
town of Olynthos. The mound lies close to the
shore, controlling two coves with wide beaches separated
by an artificial mole. Early archaic remains were found
in houses destroyed by fire, perhaps by retreating Persians in 479 B.C. Although the later row-houses along the
N-S oriented streets were simple in plan, without courts
or paved floors, the finds in them were fully comparable to those from contemporary Olynthos. The town
was occupied by Philip before 348 B.C., but was probably
not abandoned until the inhabitants moved to Kassandreia, soon after that town was founded in 316 B.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
G. E. Mylonas in
AJA 47 (1943) 78
MPI.
M. H. MC ALLISTER