Halai · Nausitoo

Halai is a polis near the present-day village of Agios Theologos, on a deeply sheltered bay on the east side of the gulf below Atalanti, in mainland Greece, in the region of Locris. Like many other sites on this side of the Greek coast, Halai was severely damaged by the great earthquake of 426–425 BC. At the end of the Classical period or the beginning of the Hellenistic period, it passed into the orbit of Boeotia. It was sacked by Sulla in 85 BC but immediately re-established. The seaside area of the city and the cemeteries to the north and east were excavated between 1911 and 1935. The oldest archaeological levels of the site date from the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age. (Stillwell, 1976)

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The fortified area of Halai cannot be called an acropolis, since it lies only a few metres above sea level. Since the sea level has varied considerably since antiquity, some stretches of the walls are now under water.
The wall circuit in its final form approximated a rectangle, measuring approximately 325 metres from east to west and 160 metres from north to south.
The main entrance was at the north-east corner; there was also a secondary gate towards the west in the north wall.

General plan of the site and Archaic sectors of the fortification.

Bibliography (2)

Frederiksen, R.; Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900-480 BC (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology)
Stillwell, R. (ed.); The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites.