VAFE - 2000

Informations Générales

Numéro de la notice

1857

Année de l'opération

2000

Chronologie

Antiquité - Romain

Période byzantine

Période moderne - Vénitienne

Mots-clés

Église - Maison - Sépulture - Inscription - Lampe - Monnaie - Parure/toilette - Métal - Pierre - Verre - Édifice religieux

Nature de l'opération

Fouille

Institution(s)

13η Εφορεία Βυζαντινών Αρχαιοτήτων (13e éphorie des antiquités byzantines)

Localisation

Toponyme
Vafes

Notices et opérations liées

20002003

Description

Vaphe (or Vafes). M. Andrianakis reports on excavation and repairs at the single-aisled Church of Ag. Asomatoi, built in the 15th century AD. The church is itself sited on the foundations of a comparable earlier church, and is situated amidst ruins and scattered sherds. Outside the lines of the earlier church walls to the east and west, and in its narthex too, were cist graves made of irregular slabs. A sixth-century AD clay lamp was recovered from the western group of graves, whilst those in the east yielded three trefoil-mouthed jugs. A child’s grave had a bronze pin in the shape of a cross (seventh century AD). A half-column re-used in a grave to the east had a dedicatory inscription (dated to the sixth to seventh century AD by letter forms):

ΜΝΙΣΤΙ(ΤΙ) Κ(Υ)ΡΙΕ ΤΟΝ ΑΓΙΩΝ ΕΝ

ΑΡΓΥΡΟ(Ν) ΚΟΣΜΑ ΚΑΙ ΔΑΜΙΑΝΟ(Υ)

ΚΑΙ ΤΟ(Ν) ΣΥΝΔΡΑΜΟ(Ν)

ΤΟ(Ν) ΕΙΣ ΚΤΙΣΙΝ ΑΥΤΟΝ ΕΝΤΕΚΙΩ(ΝΟΣ) Α ΕΠΕ ΤΟΥ

ΑΓΙΩΤΑΤΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟ(Υ) ΕΠΙΦΑΝΙΟ(Υ)

ΜΝΙΣΤΙ(ΤΙ) Κ(Υ)ΡΙΕ

ΚΑΙ ΤΟ(Ν) ΤΕΧΝΙΤΟΝ

A test north of the church revealed a house with three rooms: sixth- to seventh-century sherds were recovered from a pit in the northern room. Elsewhere to the north, two Roman coins were found, plus fragments of glass vessels with blue-drop decoration and fourth- to fifth-century AD pottery.

Auteur de la notice

Don EVELY

Références bibliographiques

ADelt 55 (2000), Chr, 1070-71