GERAKAS - Stavros - 2003

Informations Générales

Numéro de la notice

2254

Année de l'opération

2003

Chronologie

Antiquité - Classique - Hellénistique - Romaine

Période byzantine - Protobyzantine

Mots-clés

Sépulture - Inscription - Monnaie - Outillage/armement - Revêtements (mur et sol) - Nécropole

Nature de l'opération

Fouille - Sauvetage

Institution(s)

Β' Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων (IIe éphorie des antiquités préhistoriques et classiques)

Localisation

Toponyme
GERAKAS

Notices et opérations liées

20022003

Description

Gerakas, Stavros. D. N. Christodoulou (Β’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on a series of excavations along Marathonos Avenue.

1-3 Marathonos Avenue. Two parallel walls ran northeast-southwest. Within this area and under a layer of tile, stone, and sherds, were two circular deposits. Finds included an inscribed marble fragment with a rosette built into wall 1:

ΠΡΟΚ[---]

ΓΑΡΓΗ[---]

Two millstones were also recovered, plus an intact undecorated lamp, a stone lintel, a bronze coin, iron studs, loomweights, and many sherds of large storage pithoi and tiles. The finds date the remains to the Roman or the Early Christian period.

3-5 Marathonos Avenue. A retaining wall oriented north-south, founded on bedrock, should be connected with the 4m long stretch of wall found 8m to the north in 2000 (Fig. 1). A funerary pyre with a few sherds lay just to the west of the wall, while 6.5m southwest of that was a pit grave oriented east-west and covered by three schist slabs. Fill in the area contained undecorated sherds and a bronze coin.

3-7 Marathonos Avenue. Finds comprise two walls and a single Hellenistic tile-covered burial pyre with a one handled undecorated cookpot, a black-glazed vessel, and a Megarian bowl.

19 Marathonos Avenue. A wall was found, with two jambs of a later door. To its east were two shallow circular cavities cut into the rock. Sherds from fill in the area included Classical black-glaze. Two pyramid loomweights, a black-glazed spindle whorl, and a millstone were also recovered.

21-25 Marathonos Avenue. An Early Classical cemetery was found, the northern part of which was found in 2000 along with tombs of the Later Archaic period.

The southern part of the cemetery contained 14 tombs (six enchytrismoi, five pyres, and three pit graves). Notable finds were as follows. The enchytrismoi were all in unpainted pots except tomb 3: 1 contained two black-glaze and two black-figure lekythoi (Fig. 2); 3 was in a pithos (Fig. 3) with relief decoration of a Scythian archer with his horse on the shoulder, while the band around the belly had impressed circles and lines. Grave goods were a black-glazed lekanis with lid, a lekythos, olpe, and skyphos, a kylix, kothon, and an alabaster alabastron; 4 contained two black-glaze plates, an olpe, part of an unpainted plate, and a black-figure lekythos; 5 had a black-glazed two-handled lekanis with lid.

Pyres: 1 contained an unpainted pot and a few black-glazed sherds; 2 was empty; 3 held a black-glaze kylix, four pyxides, a skyphos, an aryballoid lekythos, three spindle whorls, and two black-figure lekythoi.

Pit graves: 2, oriented east-west with the skeleton placed head to the west, and no further finds; 3 oriented east-west, the skeleton placed head to the east, accompanied by two black-glazed skyphoi, two lekythoi, a pyxis, an olpe, a trefoil-mouthed oinochoe, two kylikes, four black-figured lekythoi, three unpainted cookpots, and a bronze strigil (Figs 4-5).

Auteur de la notice

Robert PITT

Références bibliographiques

AD 56-59 (2001-2004) Chr., 312-315.