IKLAINA - 2009

Iklaina. M. Kosmopoulos (ASA) reports on a further season of excavation.
The LHII or LHIIIA1 house B was built on the remains of earlier structures (Fig. 1). House Γ had two phases (Fig. 2). The first comprises three rooms, one of which contained a central hearth surrounded by four column bases. In the second, four small storerooms were built in the southern part of the structure, containing many LHIIIA2−B sherds of kylikes, skyphoi, pithoi and rhyta, figurines and animal bones.
House Δ had three rooms, one of which contained many sherds and figurines (Fig. 3). Pottery from this structure dates to LHIIIA1 to LHIIIB. Investigation of one of the two rooms of the newly-discovered house E showed it to date to LHIIIA2/B. A conduit originating in that room suggests that the structure was used as a workshop; here were three further channels (Fig. 7).
A long wall on the north side of the excavation area is likely part of a peribolos(Figs 4-5). At the northern end lay a room containing a cup and two kylikes: its walls were built into fill containing LHIIIA1−2 pottery. Below this fill was a deposit of sherds and burnt animal bone, as well as a large pithos set into the hard earth surface. A helmet was found close to the wall in 2008 and, in 2009, the skeleton of a 12−13-year-old female suffering from anaemia was also discovered.
An approach route to the site was identified; pottery in the fill dates to the Late Helladic and to the fourth to third century BC, and an 8m x 12m paved area is also preserved. There are the foundations of at least five rooms with LHII−IIIA1 pottery, part of a terracotta offering table and fragments of wall-painting depicting buildings, women and men with a ship.