Oikonomos

Greece (Aegean - Cyclades)

Oikonomos is an islet connected to the island of Paros by a sandbank, in the Cyclades, in the Aegean. There, a fortification was built on the lower part of the hilltop in the Archaic period.

Forms of occupation of the ásty

Walls and position of the gates

A wall 250 m in circumference, built of polygonal blocks with an average height of 1.05 m, with a mud-brick superstructure on the west. The main gate is on the south of the wall, with a smaller gate on the north, blocked at some unknown point in the chronology. Located on the lower part of the hilltop.

Oikonomos. General plan of the site and fortifications.

Bibliography (1)

Frederiksen, R.; Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900-480 BC (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology)