KASTELLI Pediados - 2000
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
1813
Année de l'opération
2000
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Canalisation - Sépulture - Monnaie - Outillage/armement - Terre cuite architecturale - Bois - Métal - Os - Pierre - Installation hydraulique - Nécropole - Voierie
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Kastellion Pediada
Kastellion Pediada
Notices et opérations liées
2000
Description
Kastelli (K. Galanaki property). S. Mandalaki (ΚΓ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation conducted in 2000. Beneath an extensive mound of field-stones (Fig. 1) lay two Early Christian or Early Byzantine tombs, a stone-built water channel (Fig. 2) of the same period and a Minoan destruction layer with plentiful MMI-II pottery. The tombs are of somewhat makeshift construction and contained single inhumations in extended position without grave goods. The better-built one, of upright stones, housed a female burial; the other, probably for a male, was delineated by small stones in a row at the east and an earth/stone ‘wall’ at the north. Dating evidence is provided by the sherds collected from the vicinity. The water channel is contemporary with the stone mound: traced northwest-southeast for 2.9m, it is made of small stones, lined inside with plaster and covered with stone slabs (0.8m wide overall; channel 0.25m wide x 15m high internally). A bronze coin was found by the opening of the channel. The Minoan destruction level lies over stereo: it was not associated with architectural remains and appears to be a dump of domestic debris. Among large quantities of sherds, 27 intact or near-intact vessels (kalathoi, tripod vessels, jugs and conical cups) and local wares of the First Palace period were recovered, as well as an obsidian blade, a stone pounding tool and whetstone, and a clay cylindrical weight. A pit dug into stereo was packed with sherds of the same period, as well as five whole conical cups of different sizes and some traces of burnt wood and bones. A segment of rough wall from a structure was also found beneath the stone mound.
Auteur de la notice
Don EVELY
Références bibliographiques
ADelt 55 (2000), Chr, 1019-21
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Date de création
2011-02-09 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-06 11:14:29
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Kasteli. Galanaki property: Section 4, stone mound and one of the two tombs.
Fig. 2/ Kasteli. Galanaki property: Section 5,the stone-built water channel.