GLYFADA - Artemidos and Themistokleous Streets - 2007

Glyfada, Artemidos and Themistokleous Streets (O.T. 241, property of Tsamparlidi). B. Antonopoulou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of 17 burials: 8 inurned cremations, 6 pyres and 3 shaft graves (Fig 1). All burials contained votive offerings: primarily black-figure lekythoi and black-glazed pots (skyphoi, pyxides, lekanes, olpes). Pointed amphorae, a pithos, a situla, a cooking pot and an amphora by the Lydos painter (Fig 2) had been used for the inurned cremations. Few bones were found in the pyres. Apart from these the pyres contained bronze artefacts and olive pits. The latter could have come from the firewood used for the pyres. The burials are dated in the second half of the 6^th – first quarter of the 5^th c. B.C. Finally, shallow rock-cuts point to a later use of the area for manufacturing or agricultural purposes.