ATHENS - Kerameikos - 2003
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Numéro de la notice
2188
Année de l'opération
2003
Chronologie
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Kerameikos Excavations, Céramique
Kerameikos Excavations, Céramique
Notices et opérations liées
2003
Description
85-87 Peiraios Street (G. Papandreou Foundation). E. Baziotopoulou-Valavani (Γ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the excavation in 2002-2003 of this 286m² plot to the northwest of the archaeological site of the Kerameikos (Fig. 1). The continuation of the road from the Dipylon to the Academy was revealed, dating from the Classical period to the sixth-century AD. During the Late Roman-Early Byzantine period it was 2.5-3m wide, but its width in earlier periods could not be determined in the excavated area. A roadside cemetery of the sixth-seventh century AD is related to the Justinianic or post-Justinianic phase of the Kerameikos. Its establishment in the sixth century is connected with the Justinianic phase during which a new fortification was built on the remains of the Themistoklean wall. The cemetery thus belongs to last period in the history of the Kerameikos.
Excavation revealed a total of 20 vaulted tombs in clusters of three to four, with their narrow sides at the road. Goods were simple: small undecorated prochoes and a few metal finds (two spoons and a buckle). The tombs contained graves of men, women, and children together. The absence of Christian symbols, the indication that the dead were placed in sacks sewn with iron needles then found in situ by the skull, and the buckle type, suggests that the graves may be related to the first foray of the Slavs into Athens around 580AD.
Auteur de la notice
Robert PITT
Références bibliographiques
AD 56-59 (2001-2004) Chr., 253-254.
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Date de création
2011-06-23 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-09 11:30:47
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ 85-87 Peiraios Street: excavation plan and section.