ANOIXI - 2007
Athens, Anoixi, Kritis St. A. Hatzidimitriou (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a Late Geometric burial of a female. The shaft grave contained jewelry and 32 intact vessels. These include oinochoae (Fig 1), skyphoi, 2 aryballoi (Fig 2), three plates (Fig 3), and five pyxides whose lids are either decorated with terracotta horses (Fig 4) or have handles. One of the pyxides depicts a circle dance (Fig 5). The jewellery includes a gold hair ring, 2 bronze armlets and two silver fibulae. Finally, part of a kiln, a floor, a wall, and a fragment of an unfluted column dating in the Late Classical period were found.
The excavation was carried out by the contract archaeologist P. Christakou, under the supervision of D. Palaiologou and M. Stephanopoulou.