SMARI - 2000
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
1814
Année de l'opération
2000
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Smarion
Smarion
Notices et opérations liées
Description
Smari. D. Hatzi-Vallianou (Archaeological Institute of Crete) reports on the 2000 season of excavation at this Bronze Age and Early Iron Age settlement, as well as on environmental studies, geological survey and conservation and presentation of the site as a whole. For references to other comparable and comprehensive annual accounts, see AR 49 (2002-2003), 83. On the upper acropolis, excavation of the central hearth in the main hall of Megaron B was completed and its supporting layers investigated: the stones of the hearth were then restored (Figs 1-2). Megaron Γ (probably a guardhouse) has as its southern and eastern walls the acropolis circuit, and was probably a later addition, built onto the circuit wall. It has two entrances: excavation here revealed six stratified layers over bedrock with sherds, two loomweights, animal bones and seeds. The House of Athena (Fig. 3) yielded Early Minoan and Middle Minoan material below its paved floor and an early level with traces of fire. Numerous rooms were excavated within the acropolis, some attached to the circuit wall, others free-standing. Rough pavements and yard spaces are noted, as are pottery and stone tools. Minoan levels are often noted at lower depths (e.g. area M1 [Figs 4): often dated to MMII (Figs 6-7), they include pithos sherds, conical and carinated cups, jugs, stone tools and stone vases. Outside the acropolis, work continued on Megaron 2B (Fig. 8), east of Megaron Γ and the acropolis circuit wall. A long rectangular form with three doors, it contained sherds and animal bones, stone tools, spindle-whorls and loomweights, as well as three bronze fish-hooks. The floor had charcoal and ash to the west, as did a bench there (Fig. 9): the destruction can be dated to LMIIIC (Figs 10-12). Structures continued to be located on the southern slopes (Fig. 13). Surface survey began in 1977 in a radius of 3km around the modern village, in combination with rescue excavation locating tens of new sites and monuments attesting to continuous exploitation from the Early Minoan period to the present day. In 1999-2000, the survey was extended into the wider area of the demos of Kastelli, with numerous Neolithic to modern sites recorded. Settlements, farmsteads, shrines and churches and cemeteries of Minoan and early historical times were well attested around the modern village and the hill of Profitis Ilias (Fig. 14).
Auteur de la notice
Don EVELY
Références bibliographiques
ADelt 55 (2000), Chr, 1091-102, 1106-07, 1112
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Date de création
2011-02-14 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-06 11:15:20
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Smari. Acropolis. Megaron B. Central Hearth from east after looting.
Fig. 2/ Smari. Acropolis. Megaron B. General view from east to west.
Fig. 3/ Smari. Acropolis. Sacred House of Athena (K1).
Fig. 4/ Smari. Acropolis. Northwest part. Area M1 from southeast.
Fig. 5/ Smari. Acropolis. Northwest part. Area M2 & M1 from southeast.
Fig. 6/ Smari. Acropolis. Area Θ5. MM vessel.
Fig. 7/ Smari. Acropolis. Northwest corner. Area Θ5. MM vessel.
Fig. 8/ Smari. Acropolis. Building 2B after the discovery of hearth.
Fig. 9/ Smari. Acropolis. Building 2B. West wall with bench.
Fig. 10/ Smari. Acropolis. LMIIIC pottery(a).
Fig. 11/ Smari. Acropolis. LMIIIC pottery(b).
Fig. 12/ Smari. Acropolis. LMIIIC pottery(c).
Fig. 13/ Smari. Acropolis. South slope. Building I.
Fig. 14/ Map of archaeological locations in the area of Smari.