ARTA - Anc. Ambracia - 2002
General Information
Record ID
3143
Activity Date
2002
Chronology
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Localisation
Toponym
Arta
Arta
Linked Record
20022010
Report
Arta (anc. Ambracia), 28 Priovolou Street (Papanikolaou property). I. Katsadima (ΙΒ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of Archaic and Classical housing and part of the 1.4m-wide stone-paved alley which ran east-west through it. (Fig. 1: 277).
The earliest settlement phase (late seventh- to early sixth-century BC) is represented by two adjoining rooms, A and B, forming the northeast corner of a house bordered to the north by the alley and to the east by a road previously excavated on the Manou property. The walls were of irregular small-medium limestone blocks and stones. Doors in rooms A and B link to room Γ, of which only the eastern part is preserved (founded on fill containing Late Geometric and Archaic pottery). In the second, early fifth-century construction phase, a pebble floor was laid in rooms B and Γ over a flood deposit which contained architectural terracottas and sherds of the late sixth-early fifth century. The walls of room B rested on their Archaic predecessors, while room Γ was extended to the west (with bases for supporting columns located). Finds from the floor include black-glaze sherds, a terracotta figurine, a late third- or early second-century lachrymaterion, a bronze coin, bronze nails, nine loomweights, a few bones and fragments of glass vessels. The building continued in this form until the second century BC. Thereafter, three Byzantine pits were opened, two cutting the Classical floor. A 19th-century well damaged the western part of the structure.
Author
Catherine MORGAN
Bibliographic reference(s)
ADelt 56-59 (2001-2004) B5, 53-55.
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2013-06-10 00:00:00
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2023-10-11 13:47:29