ATHENS - Kolonos - 2003
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
2185
Année de l'opération
2003
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Notices et opérations liées
2003
Description
33 Pythodorou Street. Ch. Stoupa (Γ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports four tombs (three Classical and one Early Hellenistic), and part of a later peribolos (Fig. 1).
In the south-southeast of the plot, a curved wall (oriented east-southwest and built of blocks worked on the upper and lower faces) was probably part of a funerary peribolos. Its slightly rounded western end lay above Tomb 2.
Tomb 1, a tile grave oriented east-west, 2.3m northwest of the peribolos, contained a body placed supine without grave goods. The disturbed fill contained late fourth- to early third-century BC pottery.
Tomb 2, a pyre (2.2 x 0.96m) at the northwest edge of the peribolos was cut partly into a layer of brown coarse soil with gravel and partly into the marl bedrock. The north side was lined with mud brick: the fill had been disturbed by the opening of Tomb 3, north of the pyre. The mud brick wall, which probably served to separate the two pits and to define Tomb 2 to the north, was formed of 14 courses with the upper section coated with clay (Fig. 2). A burnt layer (found at a depth of 2.59m) was composed of gray-brown earth with marl, and much mud brick fallen onto the floor of the tomb: remains of the calcified bones as well as the wood of the pyre were found. In the upper part of the pyre fill was an Athenian gold coin (as the danake) stamped with an owl, obsidian blades, and bronze filings. Fragmentary burnt items within the ash layer comprise an alabastron, bronze plate and the iron remains probably of a strigil. On the tomb floor two narrow bands of red clay were probably small ventilation channels.
In Tomb 3 (oriented east-west), a layer of grey-black earth and ash contained skeletal remains, 14 black lekythoi, a pyxis, one terracotta and one alabaster alabastron, and iron and wood remains (Fig. 3).
Tomb 4, in the northwest of the plot, is a rectangular pit (2.14 x 1.57m) oriented southeast-northwest, cut in the yellowish marl layer (Fig. 4). It formed the northeastern part of a wider pit divided into two unequal areas by a narrow strip of marl. A burnt layer contained a skeleton in supine position (head to the southwest), six black-glaze lekythoi, a red-figure pyxis, and 11 lentoid glass objects (probably dress ornaments). Amorphous incinerated wood was found in the southeast corner of the bottom of the pyre.
This plot lies east of, and close to, the edge of the ancient road of the Demosion Sema, which leads from the Dipylon to the Academy. Part of this road was previously found on a neighbouring plot at Monastiriou 12 and Siatistis.
Auteur de la notice
Robert PITT
Références bibliographiques
AD 56-59 (2001-2004) Chr., 247-250.
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Date de création
2011-06-23 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-09 11:29:17
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ 33 Pythodorou Street: excavation plan and sections.
Fig. 2/ 33 Pythodorou Street: tomb 3, mud brick wall.
Fig. 3/ 33 Pythodorou Street: tomb 3.
Fig. 4/ 33 Pythodorou Street: tomb 4.