Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . of ^ rtJiiiii^*i ?) !!: ITtZ ~ ^J TOPOGRAPHY OF THE IK ARIA N DISTRICT. 49 that the name is Dionysos not Dionysios. Here, then, at Dionysos wehave the site of the cleme of Ikaria. Tlie spot at which the principalexcavations were made appears on the upper edge of Curtius andKauperts map of Pentelikon. Here was the eSpa, the political andreliiiions centre of the deme. Let ns attempt to determine its boun-daries. To the nortli, close to the deme-centrc, looms up the heightwhich on Leakes map is called Aformao and on

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Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . of ^ rtJiiiii^*i ?) !!: ITtZ ~ ^J TOPOGRAPHY OF THE IK ARIA N DISTRICT. 49 that the name is Dionysos not Dionysios. Here, then, at Dionysos wehave the site of the cleme of Ikaria. Tlie spot at which the principalexcavations were made appears on the upper edge of Curtius andKauperts map of Pentelikon. Here was the eSpa, the political andreliiiions centre of the deme. Let ns attempt to determine its boun-daries. To the nortli, close to the deme-centrc, looms up the heightwhich on Leakes map is called Aformao and on tliat of Curtius andKaupert, Sfniiinff(vi(ni. The name Aphorismo is sometimes appliedmore distinctively to the height at tlie end of the range, close to Vrana.^ The name Stamatavuni (Stamata Mountain) is unkno^\•n among thepeasants here who call it, ratlier, in Allxuiian ]\Ial^ Dionyso (]\Ioun-tain of Dionysos). This height is the turning-point of a whole rangereaching to the INIarathonian plain on the north and the Kephisian plainon the west, but towers far above the rest of

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