PAPADIOKAMBOS - 2007

Papadiokambos. S. Apostolakou (Director ΚΔ' ΕΠΚΑ) and Ch. Sofianou (ΚΔ' ΕΠΚΑ) report on the excavation of a M building in 2007.
Continuing work begun in 2004, 6 more rooms were investigated of this 2-storey structure (some 130m²; walls standing to 1.4m) of LM I date. Storage and household ceramic vases, sea shells, stone tools including a large stone mortar and obsidian blades were all found in the rooms; the yard yielded a whole bronze dagger and a clay basin full of limpet shells. The sudden destruction of the building might be connected with the volcanic eruption on Thera as many pumice pieces were recovered in that horizon. A 27m l. wall, noted in 2005, served as a protective embankment against the flooding of a nearby stream.