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Damastion ((ギリシア語:Δαμάστιον)) was an ancient city in the area of central Balkans. Various sites in Serbia〔http://av.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/58/AV_58_Popovic.pdf〕 and Macedonia and Albania have been considered as the location of this ancient town. The city was in the borderlands of Illyria and Paeonia, more on the side of the latter. The exact site of the city is not yet identified with certainty. Damastion is attested only in Strabo who says that the city had silver-mines.〔Wilkes, J.J. The Illyrians, 1992, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, Page 223,"... Among the southern Illyrians the deposits which provided Damastion (Strabo 7.7, 8), somewhere in the Ohrid region, with a silver coinage may be the same ones that attracted Corinthian ..."〕 However, he mentions Damastion without giving its position (VII, 7, 8; VIII, 6, 16). ==Location== Damastion was issuing silver in the form of coins bearing the head of Apollo on the obverse and a tripod with the inscription "ΔΑΜΑΣΤΙΝΩΝ" on the reverse. These coins have been found in many places in the Balkans, mainly in south Serbia, east Macedonia, west Bulgaria, the Scutari in Albania and as far as Romania, Trieste and Corfu. They are dated in the 4th century BC. Most attempts to locate Damastion are based on the study of the coins and their distribution. One author, Dr Imhoof-Blumer, endeavoured to find modern derivatives of the name and assumed that Damesi, a village in Albania, could have been Damastion.〔May J.M.F. The coinage of Damastion and the lesser coinages of the Illyro-Paeonian region. Oxford University Press, London, 1939〕 There are a number of other hypotheses〔Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world: map-by-map directory, Tome 1,by Richard J. A. Talbert,page 758,near Resen?〕〔The Illyrians by John Wilkes,page 128,"north or northeast of ohrid"〕 about its location somewhere near Resen in ancient Paionia,〔The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) by Z. H. Archibald, 1998, ISBN 0-19-815047-4, page 107,"of Paion- ian Damastion"〕 modern Republic of Macedonia. The most recent location that was proposed was at Serbian archaeological site Kale-Krševica, south-east of Vranje (southern Serbia) 〔(Popovic, P., Kale-Krsevica excavations 2001-2004, Bulletin of the National Museum Vranje, 33: 25-49, 2005.)〕 where 5th-century BC foundations of an Ancient Greek urban town have been unearthed.〔http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=20160361〕〔http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Kultura/Kale-iznova-iznenadjuje-nauchnike.lt.html〕 Dr. Petar Popović from the Institute of Archeology in Belgrade says that Kale-Krševica could very likely be the city of Damastion.〔 He added that monumental building was found made from semicircular blocks 9m long and 3 m high. He estimated that only 5% was excavated and said that the town probably had 3.000 people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Damastion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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