NAUPLION - 2000
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
1452
Année de l'opération
2000
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Nauplie, Nafplio
Nauplie, Nafplio
Notices et opérations liées
2000
Description
Old Parliament Building. P. Marneri (Δ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation beneath the first floor rooms conducted during the renovation of the building. Numerous antiquities were revealed (mostly Early Helladic-Middle Byzantine sherds) a large proportion of which came from a previous excavation (540 sherds and 321 figurines were marked with excavation designations, one sherd had previously been described by A. Philadelpheus, and five had paper stickers attached). The figurines, all fragmentary, were found together, and are mostly Late Helladic (Fig. 1), with 3 Archaic and 5 Hellenistic examples. The Mycenaean figurines are of the usual Phi, Psi, and Tau types, with 2 more naturalistic examples, and a third which may depict a man. The animals are of known types. Other finds are: many bronze fragments (parts of a large bronze vessel, pins, fibulae, a figurine of a feline, parts of an early fifth-century mirror, a bronze hoop and a ring, Fig. 2), 18 clay and steatite spindle whorls (Fig. 3), 21 loomweights of different types, a quantity of shells, single pieces of chalcite and unworked agate, a small fragment of Mycenaean wall-painting, a bone disc, much lead sheet, and finds from recent times, including coins of George II. Parts of a human skeleton were found as well as bones of domesticated animals, and teeth of an ovicapirid and a feline (likely a lion).
It has not yet been determined from which excavation these finds derive. It is likely that when the archaeological material previously stored in the Old Parliament was moved to the current museum in Syntagma Square in 1930, these were either left behind by oversight or were stored here perhaps during the war years.
Auteur de la notice
Catherine MORGAN
Références bibliographiques
ADelt 55 (2000) Chr, 197
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Date de création
2010-11-29 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-05 11:11:58
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Nauplion, Old Parliament: Mycenaean figurines.
Fig. 2/ Nauplion, Old Parliament: bronze items.
Fig. 3/ Nauplion, Old Parliament: Mycenaean spindle whorls.