LAMBRIKA - 2003
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
2278
Année de l'opération
2003
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Koropi
Koropi
Notices et opérations liées
19992003
Description
Lambrika. O. Kakavogianni and K. Douni (Β’ ΕΠΚΑ) report on two seasons of excavation related to the prehistoric settlement.
Ιn 2002, work was undertaken on the Vardalachaki property at the north side of Varis-Koropiou Avenue, opposite the junction with a farm road. Two large graves were filled with debris from a prehistoric settlement on a small hill adjacent to the northwest. Sherds and stone tools were recovered, plus a bowl-shaped piece of litharge (lead oxide) with ten small depressions in the bottom (Fig. 1) and 116 fragments of similar objects. This Early Helladic I litharge, evidence of silver metallurgy, is the oldest such evidence discovered in the Aegean.
In 2003 excavation continued in the area of the Early Helladic settlement. To the north, in the area of the Antoniou property, study of a small EH II building began.
Ιn 2002, work was undertaken on the Vardalachaki property at the north side of Varis-Koropiou Avenue, opposite the junction with a farm road. Two large graves were filled with debris from a prehistoric settlement on a small hill adjacent to the northwest. Sherds and stone tools were recovered, plus a bowl-shaped piece of litharge (lead oxide) with ten small depressions in the bottom (Fig. 1) and 116 fragments of similar objects. This Early Helladic I litharge, evidence of silver metallurgy, is the oldest such evidence discovered in the Aegean.
In 2003 excavation continued in the area of the Early Helladic settlement. To the north, in the area of the Antoniou property, study of a small EH II building began.
The widening of Varis-Koropiou Avenue in 2003 (Fig. 2) revealed on the south side of the avenue the northern continuation of the ditches from the Vardalachaki plot, and to the north of the Apostolidi plot a small EH I house. Slightly to the west, another large artificial ditch, 8m wide and 2.5m deep, was used to collect rain water.
On the north side of the avenue was part of an EH I metalworking facility for silver and lead which consists of a series of pits and two series of small cavities, filled with hundreds of pieces of bowl-shaped litharge with 10 small indentations on the bottom (Fig. 3).
On the northwest side, where the EH II settlement is located, fragmentary building remains consist of small single-roomed (and rarely two-roomed) houses. A large road (65m long, 3m wide, with built sides) led east-west: its north side is also the peribolos of the EH II settlement.
In the area of Ag. Ioannis, on the north side of the avenue, was a large pit with Archaic and Classical pottery (Fig. 4). A smaller pit with Early Classical pottery had been found earlier in a ditch dug for the telephone company.
Auteur de la notice
Robert PITT
Références bibliographiques
AD 56-59 (2001-2004) Chr.,328, 331, 343-344.
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Date de création
2011-06-30 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-09 12:43:12
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Lambrika: bowl-shaped litharge.
Fig. 2/ Lambrika: excavation plan.
Fig. 3/ Lambrika: EH I metalworking facility.
Fig. 4/ Lambrika, Ag. Ioannis: pottery from the pit.