TROIZEN - 2009

Troizen. M. Giannopoulou (26th EPCA) reports on excavation in the east cemetery, where burials begin in the Protogeometric period. Fifteen new graves were revealed (including pit, cist and tile graves, enchytrismoi, larnakes and pithoi, and cremations), as well as a marble funerary peribolos of the fourth century. Three of the graves contained a variety and wealth of metal offerings, noting also debris of bronze working in a Roman cistern. Child burials include: an early seventh-century burial of an infant in a larnax, with a thilastron and three other vessels; a Hellenistic pithos burial of a child with a jointed doll, two winged erotes, two female figurines, two iron rings and vases including two thilastra; two further child burials, one of the late eighth century and the other of the seventh century, accompanied by small vases.