CHANIA, ODOS KATRE - 2009
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Numéro de la notice
1855
Année de l'opération
2009
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Description
Odos Katré. M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki reports on further excavation in 2009. The west entrance of the Mycenaean palatial installation (LMIIIB) has now been recognized. Part of it is a large external yard with a 0.05m deep plaster floor with boundaries as yet unknown. The worked stone blocks, mud-bricks and a column base collapsed into it indicate the presence of an important structure nearby; traces of a collapsed wooden structure are also visible. The yard was also the scene of sacrificial activity: as well as burnt seeds, finds to date include numerous bones of sheep/goat, a pig and two oxen, all uncooked. They have been variously covered in stones. Along with them, and accorded the same treatment, are parts of a young woman. The hypothesis that this last represents a human sacrifice is still under consideration; other commentators note the growing list of candidates for such behaviour, e.g. Anemospilia and Knossos on Crete, Mycenae, Prosymna, Argos and Dendra on the mainland. The final destruction debris in the yard contained part of a Linear B tablet with a male name: earlier debris strewn even later contained part of a Linear A tablet and an inscribed roundel. Elsewhere, a rectangular structure with a frescoed exterior may be an altar. To its south, and over a yard floor, five pairs of agrimi horns and four pots of local manufacture lay amidst a burnt deposit. This event can be thus dated to the early 13th century BC, forming yet another instance of widespread fire destruction in the settlement at this time.
Auteur de la notice
Don EVELY
Références bibliographiques
Unpublished field report, M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki Ministry of Culture and Tourism press release [02/02/10], cited by To Vima, Ta Nea, Eleftherotypia, Apogevmatini, Ethnos, Expres, Kathimerini, Eleftheros Typos, and Nautemboriki [03/02/10]
M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki (ed.), Χανιά (Κυδωνία): Περιήγηση σε χώρους αρχαίας μνήμης. Khania (Kydonia): a Tour to Sites of Ancient Memory (Athens 2009)
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Date de création
2011-02-17 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-06 11:42:34