PRAISOS - 2009

Informations Générales

Numéro de la notice

1794

Année de l'opération

2009

Chronologie

Antiquité - Archaïque - Classique - Hellénistique

Mots-clés

Outillage/armement - Four - Édifice Public - Métal

Nature de l'opération

Étude - Analyses

Institution(s)

British School at Athens (BSA) (École britannique à Athènes)

Localisation

Toponyme
Nea Praisos, Vaveloi

Notices et opérations liées

1992 1993 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 2000 2002 2004 20072009

Description

Praisos. J. Whitley (BSA/Cardiff) reports on study of material from the 2007 excavation southwest of the andreion. The initial impression that the upper levels represent Bosanquet’s excavation dump is confirmed. Most of the pottery is Hellenistic and Cretan, including large jugs or hydrias and bowls with incurving rims; on one closed vessel the letters ΑΛ were incised pre-firing. Non-Cretan imports comprise less than 1% of the total (no more than five possibly Attic black-glazed sherds and two pithos fragments in a possibly Anatolian/Cycladic micaceous fabric). Cretan necked cups with profiles consistent with a Late Classical to Early Hellenistic date comprise a large part of the assemblage. At least three distinct cup fabrics can be identified. At least two of the pithoi found close to the hearth on the floor level (see AR 54 [2007-2008], 97, fig. 91) are Archaic rather than Hellenistic. One is made in a fabric with red phyllite inclusions, and may be local. The other is considerably larger: both its style (with pendent tongues) and its fabric suggest that it is a product of the Afrati workshop, active around 600 BC. Archaic pithoi are found in Middle Hellenistic contexts elsewhere in Crete, e.g. at Knossos, Phaistos and Trypetos (the last two connected, as in this case, with mid second-century BC destruction or abandonment horizons). Twenty metal objects were cleaned and conserved: the bronze coin previously reported from above a floor is a third- to second-century BC issue of Praisos; the lead weight from the adjoining room weighs 0.995kg.

Auteur de la notice

Don EVELY

Références bibliographiques

Unpublished field report, British School at Athens