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PYRRHICHOS Lakonia, Greece.

Town situated in the center of the Mama on the only road crossing the peninsula to the S of Gytheion. The city was a member of the Eleutherolakonian League (Paus. 3.21.7 and 25.1). The site has been identified with the modern village of Kavalos (now renamed Pyrrhichos), in the environs of which is a place called Pourko whose name could be seen as derived from the ancient name. The area has not been excavated, and except for a few lintels and reused architectural fragments, nothing is today visible. Some chance finds (inscriptions, coins, etc.) have vanished or have been taken to the museum at Gytheion.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

E. Puillon-Boblaye, Recherches géographiques . . . (1835) 88-89; R. Weil, AthMitt 1 (1876) 158; E. S. Forster, BSA 10 (1903-4) 160; C. Le Roy, BCH 89 (1965) 378-82.

C. LE ROY

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    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.21.7
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