TOWER OF BRAURON - 2002
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
2283
Année de l'opération
2002
Chronologie
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Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Markopoulo Mesogaias, Mavrovouni
Markopoulo Mesogaias, Mavrovouni
Notices et opérations liées
20022002 (1)
Description
The Tower of Brauron. O. Kakavogianni (Β’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on survey in the area of the tower.
Opposite the tower, to the north of the Erasinos, the area is crossed by ancient roads (Site 6), scattered remains of building materials, and Late Classical pottery. To the east of the tower, ancient tombs were found on the west and north slopes of the hill on which the chapel of Ag. Dimitrios (Site 7) is located. At the Patitiria site (Site 8), to the northeast of Ag. Dimitrios, over the Erasinos, were extensive Early Classical remains, perhaps of a farmhouse.
Around 50m west of Markopoulou-Vraonas Avenue, at a modern spring (Kroi Sklia) at the crossing of the farm roads to Lexana and the tower of Brauron, was a wall of limestone blocks. Part of a small marble statue of Aphrodite and marble lekanis with a relief dolphin, now in the Brauron Museum, were reported to have come from here (perhaps from a small roadside shrine to Aphrodite).
Slightly further south, on the west slope of the Karambamba hill, a large Roman structure is probably a farm house.
At the Kipoi site is a small quarry. In the northwest of the plain of Brauron, on farm roads which lead to Spata, walls of farmhouses and funerary periboloi are preserved. At the south side of the plain, where it meets the Sorti valley, were surface remains of ancient farm houses, and at the slope of the hill a quarry.
On the coast, at the north creek formed by the Vromopousi peninsula, are remains of prehistoric settlement, with ancient remains also reported on the small islets opposite.
Auteur de la notice
Robert PITT
Références bibliographiques
AD 56-59 (2001-2004) Chr., 337-339.
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Date de création
2011-06-30 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-09 12:45:15
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Markopoulo-Brauron: survey area.