Orthos

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Orthos (Ancient Greek: Ὄρθος, Ὄρθοι, or Ὄρθα) was a city and polis (city-state) in Hellenistic ancient Thessaly. The city appears in epigraphic texts dated to the 4th century BCE. In an inscription at Delphi of the year 341/0 BCE the name appears in genitive form (Ὄρθου).

A late Hellenistic stamped roof tile found at the site of the ancient city bears the inscription [Ο]ΡΘΙΕΩ[Ν] ("of the Orthieians"), and a now-lost inscription of the 170s BCE provides evidence for an agoranomos of the Orthieians. In addition, bronze coins of Orthos dated between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE are preserved with the legends «ΟΡΘΙ», «ΟΡΘΙΕΩΝ» and «ΟΡΘΙΕΙΩΝ». The city's name appears in a list of theorodokoi at Delphi dated to c.

230-220 BCE. Whether the community is the same as the Orthe known from the Homeric Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is unknown but appears probable due to the similarities in name. The archaeological site of Orthos is located at the Agios Nikolaos location just northwest of the village of Kedros (formerly Chalambrezi), some 17 km southeast of the regional capital of Karditsa.

Much of the site is municipal property, but a substantial part is covered by privately owned cotton fields...