KASSOS
Greece.
An island in the S Aegean
near Karpathos, cited in the
Iliad (2.676) among the
participants in the Trojan War. In historic times a
Doric dialect was spoken there; and Kassos appeared in
the tribute lists of the Delio-Attic League. During the
3d c. it came under the domination of Rhodes. Several
villages now occupy the site of the ancient city of Kassos (
Strab. 10.5.18); near one of them, Poli, are remnants of walls and of necropoleis with burials indicated
by inscribed lenticular discs, mainly from the 4th and
3d c. B.C. Near Haghia Marina the mouth of a grotto,
Ellinokamara, is closed by a wall of isodomic blocks
with two gates. The grotto has yielded ceramics of various periods, including the Mycenaean.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
L. Bürchner,
RE X, 2 (1919) 2268-69;
G. Susini, “Supplemento epigrafico di Caso, Scarpanto
ecc.,”
ASAtene (1963-64) 204ff
MI; R. Hope Simpson &
J. F. Lazenby, “Notes from the Dodecanese,”
BSA 57
(1962) 168; 65 (1970) 69
MPI; 68 (1973) 169.
M. G. PICOZZI
