Chrysa Sofianou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi), Carl Knappett (Toronto), Andrew Shapland (Oxford) and Theotokis Theodoulou (Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities) report on the third campaign of underwater exploration at Palaikastro. This year the synergasia between the British School at Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi saw the continuation of underwater survey and mapping. Over the course of five diving days, 5.5 km were covered. The dives...

Theotokis Theodoulou (Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities), Chryssa Sofianou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi),m Carl Knappett (Toronto) and Andrew Shapland (Oxford) report on the second year of a three-year synergasia between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi, the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, and the BSA. The team investigated both the Chiona promontory, which forms the southern breakwater of Chiona beach, and the coastline just to its southeast, East...

Theotokis Theodoulou (Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities), Carl Knappett (Toronto) and Andrew Shapland (Oxford) share this summary of the first year of fieldwork in a new three-year collaboration between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi (Chryssa Sofianou), the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and the BSA. In July-August 2021 an underwater survey was conducted in the area around Palaikastro. Sporadic underwater finds over the years have suggested sea level change and an ancient...

À Dréros, A. Farnoux (EFA/Université Paris Sorbonne) et V. Zographaki (Éphorie des Antiquités du Lassithi) ont poursuivi en 2020 les fouilles programmées dans la ville antique (fig. 1). Les recherches ont porté sur deux secteurs, d’une part le secteur 5 sous la pente Nord du site et sous l’agora, d’autre part l’acropole Est. Les objectifs, dans le secteur 5 (fig. 2), étaient d’achever la fouille de la zone couverte par le four à chaux moderne et de préciser la fonction...

En Crète orientale, près de Vrachasi, F. Gaignerot-Driessen (Université de Heidelberg) a dirigé en 2019 une nouvelle campagne de terrain à l’Anavlochos. Les recherches se sont portées cette année sur l’agglomération urbaine du vallon central, notamment dans le quartier de la Forge et sur le versant Sud (fig. 1). Le quartier de la Forge avait déjà été exploré lors d’une campagne de fouilles en 2012 et lors d’une prospection en 2015-16, travaux qui avaient partiellement mis...

Kentri, Rousses. An unlooted chamber tomb was excavated by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi in an olive grove at the site of Rousses, c. 800m NE of the village of Kentri (Fig. 1). Its existence was revealed by a hole 1.20m in diameter and 2.5m deep (Fig. 2). The chamber tomb was cut into the local soft, marly limestone and was approached by a vertical cutting, while the entrance was sealed with a dry-stone wall.

The interior of the tomb was divided into 3 cut niches. In the...