Theotokou
Near the town of Kato Georgi, an ancient site at the SE corner of the Magnesian peninsula, just to the N of Cape Haghios Georgi (now Sepias). No ancient name is known for it. The site is at the seaward end of a dry wash valley with a steep hill (Kastro) to the S of it. At the site is a modern chapel dedicated to the Virgin. To the W of this are ruins and fragments of Doric columns. An ancient wall N of the chapel was uncovered. Fourth century B.C. column drums and a capital of limestone, originally covered with stucco, suggested a temple. To the S of the chapel the corner of a wall of polygonal masonry was found, and to the W of this a row of squared blocks, perhaps part of a foundation. Immediately S of the chapel was part of another wall and by it some fragments of painted terracotta antefixes of the 6th c. B.C. Black-glazed and Geometric sherds were found on the Kastro hill. Early Iron Age graves yielded vases, fibulas, etc. The foundations of an Early Byzantine basilica are near the modern chapel. Some ancient remains (tiles, etc.) are reported from Kato Georgi.
BIBLIOGRAPHYA.J.B. Wace, “The Topography of Pelion and Magnesia,” JHS 26 (1906) 147f; id., “Addenda,” JHS 28 (1908) 337; Wace & J. P. Droop, “Excavations at Theotokou, Thessaly,” BSA 13 (1906-7) 309-27PI; Wace & M. S. Thompson, Prehistoric Thessaly (1912) 209-14I(Iron Age graves); A. S. Arvanitopoullos in Praktika (1906) 126f; (1910) 219; AthMitt 31 (1906) 369; E. B. Van Buren, Greek Fictile Revetments in the Archaic Period (1926) 63f; E. Kourkoutidou, Deltion 23 (1968) chron. 275I(early basilica, modern chapel, triglyph).
T. S. MAC KAY