DHRANISTA
(Ano and Kato, now Ano and Kato Ktimene) Thessaly, Greece.
A modern town
above the E bank of the Papitsa river (influent to the
Sophaditikos), in mountainous country between the Spercheios valley and the W Thessalian plain, ca. 9 km E-NE
of Lake Xynias. Just to the W of Anodhranista is a circular fortification wall of polygonal masonry, ca. 4 m
thick and ca. 240 m around. The remains of two projecting towers are preserved. A little to the S of this circuit
are short stretches of two walls concentric to it, close together, which may be terrace walls or the remains of
larger circuits. To the S of these are the remains of a
tholos tomb excavated in 1911, which was said to have
contained Geometric sherds and to have dated from the
late Mycenaean-8th c. B.C. The finds have not been
published.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. S. Arvanitopoullos,
Praktika (1911)
347f, 351-53
P; F. Stählin,
RE2 (1936) 109, s.v. Thessalia, id.,
Das hellenische Thessalien (1924) 148f; Y. Béquignon,
BCH 52 (1928) 452-58
I;
La Vallée du Spercheios (1937) 331-36
M.
T. S. MACKAY
