DAPHNIOTISSA - Church of the Panagia - 2000

Daphniotissa, Church of the Panagia. D. Athanasoulis (6th EBA) reports a small supplementary excavation and study of the finds from previous excavation (see ADelt 53 [1998] Chr, 309−10).

Tile graves without goods were revealed on the hill on which the church is built, especially on the south slope. One grave, close to the apse of the church, contained a child burial. Pit graves were also excavated inside the narthex, below the floor of the main sanctuary. In the south corner of the narthex, in the same level of bones, was part of a vessel with 12th to 13th century AD Protogeometric decoration. From the same area come a 12th-century fine sgraffito cup, sherds of late glazed wares both plain and incised, part of a cup with an incised fish, a maiolica jug, fragments of glass vessels and iron nails, probably from the roof. Coins are late in date: a copy of a Venetian tornesello found in the west of the narthex and a Venetian silver soldino. In the surface level in the narthex was an Ottoman silver coin pierced for secondary use as a personal ornament. A small lead cross was found outside the southwest corner of the west wall, as well as the stone base of a press.