Katofigi-Erganos, Viannos - 2008

Katofigi-Erganos, Viannos. Maria Mavraki-Balanou (ΚΓ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports that the retired guard of Diktaion, P. Zervakis, informed the Ephorate regarding the existence of a grave, and as a result a single-day salvage excavation took place at the N slope of the rural road Katofigi-Erganos at the foothills of the mountains of Lasithi. A hole belonging to the destroyed part of a jar has been revealed due to the rain waters. After the removal of the rest of the soils and the surrounding stones, an intact piriform jar, placed with the body in the ground and the rim towards the S, was found (Fig. 1,2). Its decoration with incised herringbone motifs dates to the Sub-Minoan period. 

[Entry created by C. Koureta]