- Cape Glarentza
Ilia, Frourio Glarentza. Dimitris Athanasoulis and Athanasia Ralli (6th ΕΒΑ) report on the discovery of rooms within the citadel, aligned in parallel with the eastern walls and dated to the Frankish period. A significant object amongst the architectural remains was a capital on which was carved in relief the figure of a bird (Fig....
Ilia, Cathedral Church of Glarentza. Dimitris Athanasoulis and Athanasia Ralli (6th ΕΒΑ) report on the discovery of a funerary monument consisting of an upper chamber and underground ossuary below (Figs. 1, 2). Located outside of the southern side of the church, the walls of the upper chamber had columns at each corner while the floor consisted of slabs, which were supported on a console and a stone pillow for placing the dead. Internally, there was a cross in relief and a slot through which...
Glarentza. D. Athanasoulis and A. Ralli (6th EBA) report on excavation in two areas inside the fortress, - on the interior of eastern curtain wall where Frankish building remains were discovered under the foundations of the preserved walls, and inside the northeast tower of the fortress where strong indications of burning were discovered. The majority of ceramics found show trong ties to the west, especially...
Glarentza. The 6th EBA reports the results of the following excavations conducted between 2000 and 2004. Clearance work as part of a programme to develop and make publicly accessible the Castle of Glarenzta has given the first overview of the medieval city and its defensive architecture. Features exposed include: the full external fortification circuit; the moat with its single-arched stone bridge (fig. 1), the inner circuit wall and stronghold (fig. 2); sections of the gates and towers; a...
Glarentza. D. Athanasoulis (6th EBA) reports on continuing rescue excavation in the large Gothic church of the medieval city. On either side of the rectangular sanctuary were two side-chapels. The porch (with its collapsed stone surround) was in the middle of the west wall; in a latter phase this was walled up. There were two smaller entrances in the middle of the north side and the east end of the south. Robbed cist tombs were found along the long sides of the building, and in the fill...
En 2000, la 6e Éphorie des antiquités byzantines a entrepris des fouilles et des nettoyages dans la forteresse, notamment à l'église Saint-François, de style gothique, qui a été entièrement dégagée en plan ; l'intérieur du monument, pillé dès le Moyen Âge, conservait des fragments du décor mural de style occidental. On a aussi dégagé un tronçon du fossé qui entourait la forteresse et un pont de pierre qui conduisait à l'une des portes de la ville....
Des sondages effectués en 1999 par la 6e Éphorie des antiquités byzantines dans l'église franque, à l'occasion de travaux de nettoyage et d'aménagement, ont amené la découverte de trois tombes (pillées) disposées dans des arcosolia des murs Nord et Sud ; la fouille a également produit des fragments de peintures murales. ΕYΠΠΟ 3 (1999), p....
En 1998, la 6e Éphorie des antiquités byzantines a poursuivi le nettoyage de l'église franque (gothique) qui se trouve près du rempart Est. On a dégagé son plan (43,30 x 14,90 m), deux tombes contre son mur Nord ainsi que des fragments de sculptures architecturales et des lambeaux de fresques. AD 53 (1998) [2004] Β'1, p. 310 [D....