KEPHALA Krioneridas - 2007
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
1856
Année de l'opération
2007
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Vryses APOKORONOU
Vryses APOKORONOU
Notices et opérations liées
2007
Description
Kephala. A. Fiolitaki (28th EBA) reports on excavations conducted between 2005-2007 at an Early Byzantine farmstead (Fig. 1). Five rooms were opened: four of essentially the same constructional phase form a cluster, with the fifth (room A) off to the southeast. The first unit is served by two entrances, from the north and the east (the latter serving rooms set three steps down from the others). Rooms B1/2 (Fig. 2) were used for storage, as shown by 17 pithoi, sunk and plastered home in their pits (two cist graves, one with plaster poured over it, must have been placed there after the building had been abandoned). Rooms Δ and E combine storage with living: more pot-pits and low stone benches on the east, south and west walls were found, as were knife blades, a lead handle for a box, a small bronze pin and two finger-rings. Room A probably had two storeys: roof tiles were found along with irregular stone slabs and traces of wooden support beams for the upper floor. Two shallow pits and a V-shaped drainage system were cut into the rock inside the room at one end. Outside the east and south walls were further drains and parts of three stone mortars. Other spaces in the open zones around the rooms were defined by stone (e.g. a circular space to the northwest). West of room Δ were two ovens. Ceramic evidence dates most of the floor deposits of the first unit to AD 530-580, with some lamps and amphorae allowing an upper limit of the early seventh century AD. This accords with the two coins found, of Phocas (AD 602-607) and of Constans II (AD 642-643).
Auteur de la notice
Don EVELY
Références bibliographiques
AEK 1 (2010), 745-66
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Date de création
2011-02-17 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-12-11 09:05:56
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Ground plan of the site.
Fig. 2/ Rooms B1 and B2 from northwest.