BOUROUNI (AMMOUDI) Ag. Nikolaos - 2006
General Information
Record ID
1771
Activity Date
2006
Chronology
Key-words
Cemetery - Religious building - Stone - Bone - Metal - Plant remains - Architectural terracotta - Dress and personal ornament - Numismatics - Inscription - Church
Type of Operation
Institution
Localisation
Toponym
Limin Ayiou Nikolaou
Limin Ayiou Nikolaou
Linked Record
2006
Report
Bourouni (or Ammoudi), Agios Nikolaos. G. Brokalakis (13th EBA) reports on excavation and restoration (Figs 1,2,3,4) conducted in 2005−2006 at the church of Ag. Nikolaos, Bourouni (ΑΕΚ 1 [2010], 223−32). Inscriptions (Fig. 5) on the dome are noted. Pairs of rectangular holes (later infilled with stones and plaster) high on the north (Fig. 6) and south (Fig. 7) walls likely anchored a wooden support structure used in the erection of the dome. On the exterior, similar, if smaller, holes secured scaffolding. A clay pipe in the southwest corner of the roof channelled rain-water to a cistern to the north (Fig. 8). Investigations along the outside of the south wall and at the southeast corner, prompted by finds such as a marble pillar base (Fig. 9) and an Early Byzantine brooch (Fig. 10), revealed four graves, comprising three pits (one with a double burial) and a cist. The double burial (of a woman and child) contained bronze jewellery (pendants of Western saints [Figs 11), a necklace of 68 bone beads (Fig. 14) and a reliquary wrapped in paper (Figs 15,16,17) which contained leaves, cotton, a crystal and a bronze coin of Comnenus (AD 1176−1180) (Fig. 18). The cist tomb was well-built of local limestone: it too held two burials. A ‘false’ coin was placed in the mouth of the deceased, and a bone pendant (Fig. 19) and a later Venetian tornesello were also offered.
K. Sidiropoulos reports on the coins from this site in ΑΕΚ 1 (2010), 233−37.
Author
Don EVELY
Bibliographic reference(s)
AEK 1 (2010), 223-32, 233-37
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Date of creation
2011-02-01 00:00:00
Last modification
2023-10-06 10:43:18
Picture(s)
Fig. 1/ Ag.Nikolaos church: west facade.
Fig. 2/ Ag.Nikolaos church: east facade.
Fig. 3/ Section of the excavation.
Fig. 4/ Plan of the excavation.
Fig. 5/ Inscriptions on the dome.
Fig. 6/ Ag.Nikolaos church: north facade.
Fig. 7/ Ag.Nikolaos church: south facade.
Fig. 8/ Drainage system.
Fig. 9/ Marble pillar base.
Fig. 10/ Bronze brooch.
Fig. 11/ Bronze pendant - medallion(1).
Fig. 12/ Bronze pendant - medallion(2).
Fig. 13/ Bronze cross.
Fig. 14/ Necklace of bone beads.
Fig. 15/ Reliquary wrapped in paper(a).
Fig. 16/ Reliquary wrapped in paper(b).
Fig. 17/ Reliquary wrapped in paper(c).
Fig. 18/ Bronze coin.
Fig. 19/ Bone pendant.