ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF OCHI - Euboea

Euboea

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF OCHI

"Dragon House" of Ochi

It is located on a plateau below the peak of Neraida tis Ochi (altitude 1400 m.), near the chapel of Prophet Ilias. It has a rectangular floor plan with large monoliths in the doorway, walls built isostructurally and is housed in the exhorbital style. Many drinking vessels were found inside. Perhaps this is a temple, where Hera Telia or Gamilia was worshiped and her sacred marriage ("ochea") with Zeus was represented. The archaic (6th century BC), the Hellenistic (3rd - 2nd century BC) and even the Roman era (1st century AD) have been proposed to date the building.

Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou