Vasilis Petrakos (ASA) reports on continued excavation in 2021 in the North area of the so-called West Portico and 19 new fragments of archive in linear B were found.

Most fragments were recovered from the Mycenaean destruction layer.

The material from the collapse of the first floor of the portico was removed, allowing the ground floor to be uncovered, revealing a colonnade that extended North as well as a part of the courtyard from the complex. Between two column...

Agios Vasileios (Xerokampi). A. Vasilogamvrou (ASA) reports on continued excavation at this site in the complex known as the West Stoa with a view to defining the location where the room with Linear B tablets was found, which, according to the excavator, was on the first storey of the so-called stoa. After removal of Byzantine remains a level produced by the first-floor collapse was revealed, comprising building materials and, among them, fragments of tablets, the majority inscribed. In the...

Agios Vasileios (Xerokampi). A. Vasilogamvrou (ASA) reports on continued excavation (Fig. 1). A new poros-stone pillar base was found in the so-called West Stoa. In the area of the Archive several tens more tablet fragments and two clay sealings were collected. The majority lay in the pure Mycenaean destruction level of the first storey, on the floor and around two large pithoi. Under the fragments of pithos burnt mudbricks were uncovered, placed on the floor in two or three courses....

Ayios Vasilsios. Corien Wiersma (University of Groningen), Wieke De Neef (University of Ghent), Sofia Voutsaki (University of Groningen) and Adamantia Vasilogamvrou (Archaeological Society of Athens) report the following:

The five-year Ayios Vasileios Survey Project started in 2015 and includes three periods of surface research, followed by geophysical surveying and ethnographic research. The main objectives of the surface research are the reconstruction of the area and the...

Agios Vasileios (Xerokampi). A. Vasilogamvrou (ASA) reports on work, including geophysical prospection (Fig. 1). This revealed tombs in the north and remains of buildings in the south, probably connected with the buildings in the region of the Central Court and the West and South Stoas. Excavation in the area known as the West Stoa and Archive (where previously fragments of Linear B tablet had been found) revealed the existence of Byzantine period pits. In this disturbed level were found...

Agios Vasileios (Xerokampi). A. Vasilogamvrou (ASA) reports that new survey revealed the presence of further structures around the central court. The likely presence of further burials in the north cemetery was also indicated. Limited excavation in Building A confirmed that a wall with an unusual construction of stones and mud brick dates to Late Helladic IIIA1. Attempts to clarify the date of other structures and the relationship between them encountered difficulties for want of any...

Agios Vasileios (Xerokampi). A. Vasilogamvrou (ASA/Director, E’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the first full excavation season in 2010 (Fig. 1). In sector I lay building A, with a mud brick superstructure, which had been destroyed by fire. Seven rooms were identified (Fig. 2), one of which contained a large quantity of arms and armour (16 bronze swords, a dagger, a knife, spearheads, a bronze helmet and the remains of a boar’s tusk helmet: Fig. 3) the position of which implies that they were...