PAGONA - 2006
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
2096
Année de l'opération
2006
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Patra, Patras, Patrai, Patrae
Patra, Patras, Patrai, Patrae
Notices et opérations liées
19972006
Description
Pagona. S. Dietz (DIA) and M. Stavropoulou-Gatsi (Director, Στ’ ΕΠΚΑ) report on evidence for the Middle-Late Helladic transition at a site excavated over seven campaigns from 1986 onwards. This hill site, in the hinterland of modern Patras, covers ca. 1.5ha of the summit and west slope. Houses with stone basements and brick superstructures were built on large terraces and depressions in the sandstone bedrock. Pottery from stratified deposits at 9 Chrisovitsiou Street provides a chronological sequence. MH III-LH I deposits are defined by a destruction level across the site containing LH IIB/IIIA1 pottery. Some 0.7-0.8m below this, a more localised destruction level contained pottery typical of MH IIIA in the northeast Peloponnese. Between these two levels was a deposit containing much MH IIIB-LH I pottery. There is as yet no evidence of occupation before MH IIIA.
Two occupation phases cover the Middle to Late Helladic transition (Fig. 1). In the lower, MH IIIA, layers, goblets resemble examples from the Argolid in shape and decoration (Fig. 2); large cups or small kraters are rare; small fine cups with loop handles resemble MH III examples in the northeastern Peloponnese; a characteristic group of local small cups and jars are closely related to Asine bichrome (although that ware is wheelmade and MH IIIB in date); Adriatic ware and grey minyan are also present. In the succeeding, MH IIIB-LH I (/IIA ?) horizon, goblets and kraters are among the most popular shapes (smaller than those in the previous phase: Fig. 3): these, plus hemispherical cups and bowls are typical of MH IIIB and later contexts in the northeast Peloponnese. An indicative sherd deposit contained 70% hard-fired handmade ware with matt slip, 17% finewares, and 12% matt-painted decoration (including large jars). Bowls with wish-bone handles are paralleled in MH IIIB-LH IB western Greece, notably at Thermon and Chalkis in Aetolia. Relations with the northeast Peloponnese are evident throughout, although links with the north coast of the Gulf of Patras (in shapes and matt-painted decoration) appear only in the late phases. (Fig. 4).
Auteur de la notice
Catherine MORGAN
Références bibliographiques
S. Dietz and M. Stavropoulou-Gatsi, ‘Pagona and the transition from Middle Helladic to Mycenaean in northwestern Peloponnesos’, in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki and J. Wright (eds), Mesohelladika (BCH supp. 52), Paris/Athens 2010, 121-128.
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Date de création
2011-06-18 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-09 10:38:37
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Pagona: pottery from the transitional periods. Left column: the older horizon (groups 31, 49 and 68) corresponding to MH IIIA in the northeastern Peloponnese.
Fig. 2/ Pagona: matt-painted goblet with S-section (= Fig. 1:1).
Fig. 3/ Pagona: krater with filled triangular patterns below the rim (= Fig. 1:19).
Fig. 4/ Sites around the Gulf of Patras mentioned in the text.