Schisma Elounda - 2007
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
5524
Année de l'opération
2007
Chronologie
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Nature de l'opération
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Localisation
Toponyme
Kato Elounda
Kato Elounda
Notices et opérations liées
Description
Schisma Elounda, plot of E. Kounoulaki-Loukaki. V. Zographaki (ΚΔ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports on investigations that uncovered 9 tombs and probably a tenth, badly destroyed. A marble tombstone with relief decoration of a warrior and part of a built tomb were found in the area of a previously identified cemetery of the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods. A total of ten tombs (of which one was heavily damaged) were subsequently identified.
Four tombs belonging to the familiar type of tile-covered "hut tombs" (Fig. 3). All were defined by small field-stones, and one was entirely covered with them. The burials were disturbed and finds were minimal, consisting mostly of pottery. An amphora was found in tomb 3; a jug and cup in tomb 4, and a bronze hook, part of a strigil and fragments of glass vessels in tomb 8.
Three cist graves were found. The burials were undisturbed; grave goods included a few pieces of pottery and fragments of glass vessels. Pottery, tiles, part of a pin and an iron object were retrieved from soil removed from sections and apparently originate from damaged or disturbed graves. Excavations were not completed.
E. Tsampanaki participated in the excavations.
It seems that the vaulted, single-chamber Tomb 1 (Fig. 1) disturbed not only earlier burials, but also re-used inscribed funerary stelai as building material (Fig. 2). No attempt was made to preserve the visibility of the inscriptions. The floor of the tomb was tiled. One wall survives up to the start of the vaulting. The burial was disturbed and the interior of the tomb backfilled. A jug, three lamps, fragments of glass vessels and another inscribed block were retrieved. This vaulted tomb is the first discovered in the cemetery of Olous.
Four tombs belonging to the familiar type of tile-covered "hut tombs" (Fig. 3). All were defined by small field-stones, and one was entirely covered with them. The burials were disturbed and finds were minimal, consisting mostly of pottery. An amphora was found in tomb 3; a jug and cup in tomb 4, and a bronze hook, part of a strigil and fragments of glass vessels in tomb 8.
Three cist graves were found. The burials were undisturbed; grave goods included a few pieces of pottery and fragments of glass vessels. Pottery, tiles, part of a pin and an iron object were retrieved from soil removed from sections and apparently originate from damaged or disturbed graves. Excavations were not completed.
E. Tsampanaki participated in the excavations.
Auteur de la notice
Caroline Thurston
Références bibliographiques
ADelt 62 (2007) 1232-1234
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Date de création
2016-07-26 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-31 13:30:10