Archaelogical site of Kabeirion at Chloe area
Description
The sanctuary of Kaveri is one of the oldest and longest-standing sanctuaries of the Aegean island world. Founded towards the end of the 8th century. B.C. in the north of the island, at Cape Chloe, it was a vital center of sacramental worship from the Protolimnian period until the late Roman times. Three execution chambers were discovered, dating respectively to the Archaic, Hellenistic and Late Roman times. The archaic execution house, of the 7th c. BC, is a building of irregular rectangular plan with a desk of a double row of ceremonial plinths and a rectangular foundation with a circular projection, a kind of altar or “step”. The Hellenistic terminator, of 200 BC. it is a prostyle building with twelve Doric columns. It consists of a large central space, divided vertically into three sections by two rows of Ionic columns, with an opening to the north. a corridor perpendicular to the building separated the execution room from a series of rooms, the shelters that closed it off from the north. It was looted and burned during Roman imperial times, between the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, when the area was abandoned and served as a large “quarry” for the construction of later buildings.