TROIZEN - 2006

Troizen (property of A. Spiliopoulou – Sarantopoulou). M. Giannopoulou (KΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of 15 Protogeometric - Roman graves during rescue excavation in the east cemetery. These comprise three cists, two tile and three pit graves, four enchystrismoi, one larnax, a pithos and a cremation, all situated south of an east-west roadside wall. Two courses of a marble funerary monument were found against the wall. The three cist graves contained a variety of offerings including many metal objects (such as a copper kantharos, an omphalos bowl, a copper skyphos, a copper ring, a copper mirror, iron arrowheads and iron strigils), a bone spoon, and West Slope pottery including a kantharos bearing the inscription ΥΓΙΕΙΑΣ. Child burials include a Hellenistic oinochoe containing infant bones with a bronze mirror, and a Hellenistic pithos burial of a child, containing vases including two thilastra, two perfume bottles, two iron rings and five terracotta figurines (the pithos had been repaired with lead). The cremation, which dates to the fourth century BC, included parts of a copper stemless kylix and a ladle, fragments of an iron sword (including parts of the incised bone handle), pottery sherds and bone fragments.