Koumasa.  D. Panagiotopoulos (ASA) reports on continued excavation in the settlement (Figs 1-2).  A triangular building was investigated in Trench 4 (Fig. 3), where a number of sherds from handleless conical cups were found, as well as two cylindrical vessels, a clay spindle whorl, tiles, plaster, animal bone and shell.  In one area of the space was found a tripod cooking pot which contained smaller vessels and two stone grinders (Fig. 4). In Trench 8, in the region of the...

Koumasa. D. Panagiotopoulos (ASA) reports on excavation in the settlement near the well-known cemetery site (Fig. 1). In Rooms 5 and 6 of the Neopalatial building (Fig. 2) a wild-goat horn, pottery, a stone grinder and the head of a clay anthropomorphic figurine were found (Fig. 3). East of the Neopalatial building, in Trench 4, continuation of an area excavated in 2012 revealed further walls forming a building, as yet incomplete, in which the floor was covered with small stones. Several vessel...

Koumasa. D. Panagiotopoulos (ASA) reports on continuing excavation of the Minoan cemetery (Figs 1-2). On the first day the head of a limestone Cycladicising figurine of Koumasa type was found (Fig. 3); to date the excavation had only produced 4 fragments of similar figurines, but without heads.

During cleaning of tholos B part of a bronze dagger was found among bone. Fill to the NW of the tomb produced beads, fragments of stone vessels and obsidian blades, as well as a large number...

Koumasa. D. Panagiotopoulos (ASA) reports on excavation of tholos tomb B previously excavated by S. Xanthoudidis. Excavation continued with the removal of secondary burials, placed without order, which presented various degrees of burning and fragmentation and belonged to individuals of various ages.

The space W and SW of the tomb was also investigated, where a deposit of offerings had been found. Finds were many and interesting: about 110 beads of necklaces, 8 seals, among which...

Koumasa. D. Panagiotopoulos (ASA / Heidelberg) reports on continuing excavation in the Minoan settlement and nearby cemetery (Fig. 1). Excavation of the large building in the S part of the settlement (Trench 1) continued in room 4, where at least one floor level over a thick fill of stones was identified (Fig. 2). Ceramics from the upper level belonged to the Neopalatial period; those in the lower level to the Protopalatial. Among a small number of small-finds was the head of a ceramic bull...

Koumasa. D. Panagiotopoulos (ASA / Heidelberg) reports on continuing excavation (in collaboration with the 23rd EPKA) in the Minoan settlement, the “sanctuary” and nearby cemetery (Fig. 1). In the S, room 5β of a long building in the settlement (Fig. 2) was excavated and its successive levels investigated. The floor, hardened from use, belonged to the Neopalatial period, while the underlying level produced ceramics of the MM II-III period. Among the ceramics in this level was found a...

Koumasa. D. Panagiotopoulou (ASA) reports on continuing excavation in the settlement, cemetery and ‘sanctuary’. In the settlement, investigation focused on two areas of the large building. At least six strata were revealed, on the basis of which it is argued that the building was erected in Protopalatial times upon the remains of earlier structures, and remained in use into the Neopalatial period. In the cemetery, work focused on tholos tomb B, which had been looted. Remains of the...

Koumasa, Crete. Excavation at Koumasa, southwest of Herakleon, began in 2012 under the direction of D. Panagiotopoulos (ASA) in collaboration with the ΚΓ’ EΠKA. The Minoan settlement was investigated via four trenches on the hill of Korakies (Figs 1-2). The two most important were in sections of the settlement previously investigated by Stephanos Xanthoudidis (1904/1906), and Athanasia Kanta and Alexandra Karetsou (1991-1992), in which walls of Minoan buildings were distinguished (Fig. 3)....