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Amygdalia Andreou reports on a collaboration between the Universities of Ioannina and Thessaly, under the direction of Alexandra Alexandridou and Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian, and the Ephorate of of Antiquities of Piraeus & Islands. This is the third of a 5-year systematic excavation project at the low hill of Lathouriza, in the region of Vari in Attica (fig.30). The project aims at reexamining and excavating the place, which was excavated in the summer of 1939, by the...
Vari, Maroti St. (property of I.Yannopoulou and E. Samova). L. Makradema and A. Andreou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) report on the discovery of a building complex consisting of six rooms. The rooms contained loom weights, bronze coins, numerous broken and intact vessels (pyxides, jugs, terracotta lamps, skyphoi, pithoi, amphorae, kantharoi, lids from lekanides, plates and cups), iron and lead lumps, metal clamps, a terracotta figurine of a male form, a...
Vari, Papafoti and P. Triantafyllou Streets (O.T. 170, property of M. Kapetanaki). Ch. Kazazaki (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a building complex consisting of six walls. Adjacent to the walls lie a semicircular pyre which contained few sherds, a rock-cut deposit pit which contained few sherds and animal bones, and an ancient road, which had retaining walls on both sides (Figs 1, 2). The pottery sherds date in the Classical...
Vari, 30 Anastasiou St. (O.T. 163, property of Petropoulou). Ch. Kazazaki (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a burial mound and an ancient road to its west (Fig 1). The excavation was not...
Vari, Vas. Konstantinou St. and Paideias pedestrian street (property of Ramfou-Pergalia). Ch. Kazazaki (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of three walls, one of which is semicircular (Fig 1). Few classical pottery sherds were...
Vari, Anagyrous Avenue (O.T. 352, property of Makropoulou). Ch. Kazazaki (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a late Classical workshop. It consisted of eight rock-cut pits, two walls and two rock-cut grooves. One of the pits was circular and plastered with hydraulic mortar internally. It contained an intact 3rd c. B.C. unguentarium. The remaining pits contained plain-ware sherds and few black-glazed...
Lathouriza-Vari, (property of Pittara). Ch. Kazazaki (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of Classical architectural remains and a Late Geometric cemetery (Fig 1). A pi-shaped structure was excavated. A small room within this structure contained 5 intact, undecorated, pointed amphorae in situ, numerous amphora sherds, a large quantity of table ware, and few bones and shells. The structure appears to have been the enclosure of the Late...
Vari-Varkiza, ancient deme of Anagyrus (O.T. 194, property of N. Spyrou). M. Kassimi-Soutou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a rectangular basement building. Its walls were irregularly constructed and it contained a stone staircase. The floor consisted of sand and gravel. A colonnette with its base was found in the building. Small finds include undecorated pottery sherds, handles, amphora toes, fragments from pithoi, few...
Vari-Varkiza, 34 Hephaistou St., ancient deme of Anagyrus (O.T. 21, property of Ntouni). M. Kassimi-Soutou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of houses and agricultural facilities (Fig 1). A rock-cut drain directed rainwater to nearby wells. The best preserved structure was a basement building with a staircase (Figs 2, 3, 4). It contained sherds from pithoi, shells and olive pits. Additionally, a pit was found constructed for the...
Vari-Varkiza, Terpsichoris and Hephaistou Streets, ancient deme of Anagyrus (property of Moraitis). M. Kassimi-Soutou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a fifth-century B.C. house. It contained few pottery...
Vari-Varkiza, Dimitras and Artemidos 20 Streets, ancient deme of Anagyrus (property of Anastasiou). M. Kassimi-Soutou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of two buildings, an ancient road and a large courtyard (Figs 1, 2).
Building A, which lies in the north part of the excavation area, is a large pi-shaped building with a NW-SE orientation. Two statue bases were found NW of it. One...
Vari. A number of recent excavations around the anc. cemetery of Vari at Kaminia, between Varkiza and Vari, have brought to light a series of Myc graves. Two related walls converge towards an artificial hill which may conceal a tholos...
Vari, Demetros and Agias Lauras Streets (Kousiaki property).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a 5m-deep cistern sunk into the bedrock (1.3 x 0.8m at the mouth), with a pipe running to the mouth (both cistern and pipe lined with lime mortar). To the east, three walls and finds comprising pottery, 30 pyramidal spindle whorls and pointed amphorae toes are identified as the remains of a workshop. To the north of the walls, an Archaic cemetery contained six pithos...
Vari-Varkiza, Fleming Street (Kollaki and Methyl-oil properties). Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of two, 25 and 28m-long stretches of retaining wall which supported areas for cultivation on the southern slopes of the Flemming hill. Coarse pottery from both plots dates to the end of the fifth century...
Vari, Kamini Varis, Thasou Street (Manoli-Probona property).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of an 18m-long stretch of an early Classical east-west wall, 0.65-1m wide and 0.45-0.6m high. The wall was solidly built and in places supported with the addition of medium-sized stones. Early Classical black-glaze pottery was found in the...
Vari, Terpsichoris Street (property of A.-M. Kolaite).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a (possibly public) fifth- and fourth-century BC complex which formed part of the Lathouriza settlement. Twenty-two small rooms were built around, and primarily north of, a courtyard (14.5m north-south x 4.6-5.1m east-west) which was surrounded by walls founded on bedrock. These walls are preserved to a height of 0.16-0.25m. Pottery from the area was largely coarse, with...
Vari, Lathouriza, Karoti Street (property of B. Resti).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of part of a fifth-century BC bath complex. One room (2.8 x 3.65m) was excavated, plus part of a second to the south. In the east of the excavated room was a stone construction to collect rainwater, and in the north, a stone threshold (with grooves) belonging to a doorway leading into a third room (delimited by two walls 6.5 and 4.37m long). An unfluted column drum with a cut...
Vari, Maroti Street (Linden and Saman properties).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a looted and badly disturbed Archaic to fourth-century BC cemetery and a Geometric pyre. The Π-shaped burial enclosure I, built of carefully-worked blocks with a second, inner row of smaller stones, extended from the southwest of the Linden property onto the adjacent Saman property (the wall that continued north was 7m long and 0.85m wide). A north-south road (11.5m long and...
Vari, Maroti Street (Andrianopoulos and Schoinas properties). Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of retaining walls which indicate that a fifth- and fourth-century BC road ran parallel to the modern...
Vari, Asyrmatos (properties of Kaire AP, Kourti, Christophilopoulou, and P. Belonia).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a 37.1m-long stretch of road (2.05-2.27m wide), running northwest-southeast on the Kaire property, paved with small stones and with retaining walls on both sides. Finds from the road and the walls comprise late Archaic and early Classical pottery, obsidian blades and two bronze coins. A few poorly preserved and unidentifiable remains were...
Vari, Demetros and Hagias Lauras Streets (property of Kousiaki).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a 40m-long early Classical retaining wall, oriented northwest-southeast in the south-southwest part of the plot, along with seven rooms from a building complex, with rubble walls and in some cases soft limestone floors. Finds from the complex comprise fourth-century BC pottery, a stone quern, shells, 11 pyramidal loom weights, a black-glazed conical spindle whorl,...
Vari, Hypates and Mousson Streets (Papadopoulou property). Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of four rooms (each 2.25 x 1.5m) from a domestic complex which continues onto the adjacent plot to the north. To the southwest lay four entrances and a courtyard. The building’s size, masonry, thresholds and floors indicate that it was lavish. Finds from the complex comprise pyramidal spindle whorls, bosses, pottery (some black-glazed), a lead weight, lead clamps, seven...
Vari, Kamini, Agoriani Street (property of G. Steggou).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on discovery of 45 Mycenaean chamber tombs and 13 shaft graves in a cemetery area 30m southeast of the Varkiza Mycenaean cemetery. The chamber tombs were cut into the bedrock: their roofs had collapsed but their entrances were intact. Some burials contained one and others many human remains. Finds from the tombs and graves (vessels of various types - some intact, seals, knives, spindle...
La fouille de la nécropole géométrique de la rue Haghias Lavras (v. BCH 123 [1999] Chron., p. 657, s.v. « Attique ») a été poursuivie en 1999. ΕΥΠΠΟ 3 (1999), p....
A. Mazarakis-Ainian, Structures rurales, p. 65-80, passe en revue les diverses interprétations des vestiges archéologiques exhumés lors des fouilles de 1939, comprenant une petite installation agro-pastorale et un petit sanctuaire dédié, vu la nature des offrandes, à une divinité féminine.
A. Mazarakis-Ainian, Klados, p. 143-155, souligne que la construction du péribole est moderne, que la superstructure des murs des bâtiments était en pierre et non en briques crues et...
Un bâtiment composé de pièces de dimensions variées, dont une cour (?), a été dégagé au Sud-Est de la colline de Lathouriza : les murs étaient en pierres irrégulières et briques crues, les sols en terre, les toitures en tuiles. On a recueilli sur le sol des broyeurs, des pesons et des fusaïoles, qui suggèrent une activité artisanale ; on signale également des fragments de pithoi et de réchaud. Étage sur quatre niveaux sur la pente de la colline, le bâtiment fut construit en...
Sur le terrain du Dispensaire, un mur de la 1re moitié du Ve s. av. J.-C. constituait peut-être l'enclos d'une nécropole : on a dégagé un sarcophage monolithe en calcaire, à couvercle à fronton, et un bûcher de la 1re moitié du Ve s. av. J.-C., ainsi qu'un lécythe en marbre. Sur le terrain de l'école communale, d'autre part, on a mis au jour, sur une longueur de 37-39 m, deux murs épais en blocs irréguliers construits par endroits selon l'appareil polygonal et datant...
On a partiellement dégagé, à la limite entre les dèmes d'Anagyros et d'Halai Aixonides, une construction semi-circulaire, en pierre locale, d'usage probablement agricole. ArchDelt 39 (1984) [1989], Chron., p....
Après la découverte d'un pithos de stockage intact, une fouille entreprise à Périvolia a mis au jour quatre pièces d'une habitation du IIIe et du IVe s. ap. J.-C., dotée d'une installation semi-circulaire de 2,50 m de large dallée de schiste, et d'un poste d'observation (?) rectangulaire. Les murs sont construits en pierres brutes liées à la boue. On y a recueilli de la céramique commune, dont trois vases stamnoïdes intacts, et deux pesons. À Gourna, on a découvert un enclos...
Plusieurs murs ont été dégagés, appartenant à des bâtiments d'époque classique. ArchDelt 37 (1982) [1989], Chron., Β'1, p....
Deux groupes de tombes ont été fouillés en 1980-81 : six tombes en fosse d'époque classique et un péribole funéraire situé en bordure d'une rue Nord/Sud (23 rue Aghias-Lavras) ; 22 tombes archaïco-classiques, dont 8 sépultures en jarre, 12 fosses à crémation et 2 sarcophages (lieu-dit Vlachika). ArchDelt 35 (1980) [1988] Chron., p. 74-75, et 36 (1981) [1988] Chron., p....
Au lieu-dit Gourna, où l'on a localisé la nécropole du dème d'Anagyrous (v. BCH 103 [1979] Chron., p. 542), 28 nouvelles tombes ont été découvertes en 1978 : 6 fosses à crémation, 5 fosses à inhumation, 4 cistes, 4 tombes à tuiles, 4 tombes construites en moellons, un sarcophage en poros, une tombe-pithos et une larnax. Situées en bordure d'une route Nord-Ouest/Sud-Est de 3 à 4 m de large, elles étaient pour la plupart groupées à l'intérieur d'une sorte de péribole...
A Vlachika (dème d'Haies Aexonides) on signale la découverte d'une stèle et d'un lécythe funéraires en marbre inscrits. ArchDelt 33 (1978) [1985] Chron., p....