AIGION - 2006
General Information
Record ID
2097
Activity Date
2006
Chronologies
Key-words
Domestic space - Cemetery - Residence - Plant remains - Bone - Tomb - Site Type - Building Type - Material Type
Type of Operation
Institution
Ministry of Culture and Tourism: National Museum, Athens
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Aigion. L. Papazoglou-Manioudaki (National Museum) reviews Middle and Late Helladic evidence from rescue excavations in the modern town (especially the northeast part). The site was occupied in the Neolithic period (extensive Neolithic levels were discovered in 2005), destroyed at the end of EH II, and reoccupied in MH II. Most Middle Helladic architectural remains belong to a destruction level and are difficult to interpret. MH graves comprise one pithos and one cist (on 2 Aristeidou Street, Fig. 6) with no goods in situ but miniature Minyan vessels likely displaced nearby.
The settlement expanded in LH I. A large rectangular LH I building (on 8 Polychroniadou Street, Fig. 7) remained in use until its destruction in LH IIA: changes to the ground plan followed in LH IIB/IIIA1. A cist grave and two burials in a pit were found inside the LH I building, plus two pithos burials on the same building plot.
Author
Catherine MORGAN
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Date of creation
2011-06-18 00:00:00
Last modification
2018-08-22 09:24:35
Picture(s)
Fig. 1/ Aigion, 2 Aristeidou Street: grey minyan.
Fig. 2/ Aigion: black burnished pottery.
Fig. 3/ Aigion: matt-painted pottery.
Fig. 4/ Aigion: matt-painted pottery.
Fig. 5/ Aigion: matt-painted pottery.
Fig. 6/ Aigion, 2 Aristeidou Street: cist grave.
Fig. 7/ Aigion, 2 Polychroniadou Street: LH I building.
Fig. 8/ Aigion: matt-painted pottery.
Fig. 9/ Aigion: matt-painted pottery.
Fig. 10/ Aigion: matt-painted pottery
Fig. 11/ Aigion: matt-painted pottery.
Fig. 12/ Aigion: Aeginetan matt-painted pottery.
Fig. 13/ Aigion: polychrome matt-painted pottery.
Fig. 14/ Aigion: polychrome matt-painted pottery.
Fig. 15/ Aigion: LH I Mycenaean pottery.
Fig. 16/ Aigion, 2 Aristeidou Street: LH I Mycenaean pottery.
Fig. 17/ Aigion, Palaiologou Street: stemmed goblet with wishbone handles.