- ΛΕ' Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων
Tzannata (Katsivelata, Riza). A. Vasilakis (former Director, ΛΕ΄ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the second excavation season. The large LHII/III apsidal/ovoid building discovered in 2011 was completely exposed almost down to floor level. The overall area of the building is 168m2: the interior is divided into four rooms (three unequal parts along the north-south axis, with the middle of these then subdivided on an east-west...
Tzannata (Katsivelata, Riza). A. Vasilakis (former Director, ΛΕ΄ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the first season of excavation of a Mycenaean settlement close to the well-known tholos tomb at Bourtzi (fig. 1). Despite the creation of a protected zone in 1999, damage continued to occur to important remains including the monumental prehistoric peribolos on the Katsivelata hill (on the property of E. Menegatos) ca. 350m northeast of the tholos tomb. Excavation was therefore undertaken to investigate...
Mousata. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of well-made pits (1m deep and 1m in diameter) cut into bedrock. These bothroi contained Final Neolithic pottery, animal bones, stones, rubbers and scrapers. The associated settlement has yet to be...
Arginia. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation to establish the date of the known defensive wall which protected the hill from the north-northeast. The pottery and stone tools recovered indicate an early (Final Neolithic-Early Helladic)...
Skala Mounda. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the excavation of Early Helladic pottery on this low hill close to the sea. The location, noting comparisons with EH settlement at Minies and Same (Phourni), reflects movement down to the sea in this period, away from the inland focus of Final Neolithic...
Skineas, Palliki. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery in a known cemetery area of two further Mycenaean chamber tombs with short dromoi. There were very few finds made in the dromos of tomb 1: most came from the chamber to tomb 2, even though around one third of it had been...
Same. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reviews the development of the town from prehistoric to Roman times based on recent rescue excavations and research programmes. The known Early Helladic settlement at the Phourni site can now be related to newly-discovered architectural remains on the EKO property at the southern entrance to the modern town (the exact nature of the connection awaits completion of the excavation). Finds to date include an extensive destruction layer, a small cist...
Fiskardo, anc. Panormos (property of Ch. Tselendi). A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery at Tigania, within the modern settlement, of a rectangular paved area bounded by a low step (fig. 1). Around it opened rooms and other areas, while on the west side was a well-built paved road. Inscribed bases set in a Π-arrangement on the paved area provide information on office-holders, religious beliefs and personal names. The two last lines of the inscription on one base are...
Marathia. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the collection of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic stone tools from this...
Vathy. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports surface finds from the hills around the town (and from rescue excavation within it) which indicate settlement of the area in the Mycenaean, Geometric, Archaic and Hellenistic periods. A Roman-Late Roman complex found in rescue excavation in the public car park included a domestic shrine which yielded a bronze figurine perhaps depicting Asklepios (or a poet or philosopher, fig. 1), and an adjacent bath. A group of Roman tombs with...
Kerion Bay, Piso Panokambi (Perlakia). A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a rectangular Hellenistic building, probably a farmhouse with a tower. The site is surrounded by cultivated land and has a neighbouring stream: the location on one of the lower hills in the area, with consequent restriction on the field of visibility, argues against a purely defensive...
Ano Gerakari, Rizokastro-Kastro. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the systematic recording of the Hellenistic fortification wall around the...
Krane (Tsilimidou property). A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a Mycenaean settlement west of the known Late Helladic, Classical and Hellenistic settlement on the Kasteli and Pezoules...
Krane. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports a series of discoveries in the course of road construction. A deposit of Geometric and Archaic pottery, plus sixth-century kilns, indicate a potter’s workshop a short distance from the Kasteli and Pezoules hills. In the same direction and in contact with the hills lay the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman craft quarter, including a potter’s workshop. Masses of fired clay and large sherd deposits were found, plus stamped amphora handles...
Pronnoi, Perdikovrysi. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation of a cemetery where illegal excavation had for decades resulted in the looting of many tombs. Most characteristic were enchytrismoi in large pithoi dated by grave goods to the second half of the sixth to the fourth centuries BC: the surviving goods suggest that the burials must originally have been...
Pale. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on finds from rescue excavations. On the Kalogeropoulou property, successive levels dating from the late eighth to the second centuries BC revealed a continuous settlement history. A house next to a cobbled street had a second-century mosaic floor with emblemata of exceptional workmanship (fig. 1). Excavation for road construction revealed stone catapult balls probably left after the siege of Pale by Philip V in 218 BC (a date...
Stavros, Polis Bay (Fitzgerald property). A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of pit and tile graves with rich offerings dating from the fifth century BC to the second-third century AD. Pyre layers are associated with funerary rites. Finds include a bronze...
Zakynthos Archaeology Project. G.J. van Wijngaarden (Netherlands Institute/Amsterdam) reports on the 2nd season of geological and archaeological survey carried out in collaboration with the ΛΕ' ΕΠΚΑ. In 2007 survey was concentrated around mod. Machairado in the interior of the island (research area B), with the aim of investigating the transition from the mountains to the central alluvial plain. As in 2006, very many Pal lithics were discovered. The mountain zone in the W part of the...
Livatho Valley Survey. C. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood (Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies/Dublin) and A. Sotiriou (Director, ΛΕ' ΕΠΚΑ) report on the 5th survey season. The 2007 season was a combination of study, fieldwalking of a small part of sector E and gridded collection at 3 locations of pottery densities consistent with sites. Although the survey has adopted an artefact centred ‘siteless’ survey strategy, the existence of ‘places of special interest’ or ‘sites’ is fully...
Fiskardo. A. Sotiriou (Director, ΛΕ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of part of a small theatre or odeion of the 2nd−3th Ct AD in the course of a rescue excavation on the land of R. Donadou and P. Karava . Part of the koilon and the paved orchestra (5.45m di.) were found in an excellent state of preservation: the structure continues under the neighbouring Apodemon Erissianon street and into a further plot, where excavation is expected to continue. The koilon had 4 tiers of seats of which...
La même année, on a partiellement dégagé un vaste établissement néopalatial et postpalatial sur la colline de Kakavella, en relation avec l'habitat minoen déjà connu. ΕΥΠΠΟ 2 (1998), p....
I. Gavrilaki publie, Sybrita, p. 31-59, les résultats d'une fouille d'urgence effectuée en 1988 au Sud-Ouest du village : une tombe à chambre du MR IIIB a livré un riche mobilier, comprenant, outre la céramique, un vase en pierre, un rasoir et un poignard en bronze, ainsi qu'un...