PITSIDIA - 2000
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Record ID
1821
Activity Date
2000
Chronology
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Type of Operation
Institution
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Toponym
Pitsidia
Pitsidia
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Report
Pitsidia. D. Hatzi-Vallianou reports on a subsidiary season of excavation in 2000 at a Minoan rural villa, ahead of the creation of a cover for the site. Tests to the east and west showed walls, Middle Minoan sherds and the occasional stone tool or vase fragment. It seems that a First Palace period settlement existed in the area, and that it was levelled and filled for the construction of the new villa (Figs 1-4). The ceramics display typical Phaistian features (Figs 5-6). The recovery of good quality Classical and Early Hellenistic pottery to the southeast argues for a community of this date in that region. Surface survey in 1999-2000 has expanded the results obtained from earlier work in 1978: it has shown the region to have been continuously settled from Neolithic times to the present day.
Author
Don EVELY
Bibliographic reference(s)
ADelt 55 (2000), Chr, 1102-05, 1108-11
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Date of creation
2011-02-14 00:00:00
Last modification
2023-10-06 11:19:54
Picture(s)
Fig. 1/ Pitsidia. Minoan rural villa: Section Γ2.
Fig. 2/ Pitsidia. Minoan rural villa: Section Γ2 - another view.
Fig. 3/ Pitsidia. Minoan rural villa: Section B2. Clay and stone finds in situ.
Fig. 4/ Pitsidia. Minoan rural villa: Section B1.
Fig. 5/ Pitsidia. Minoan rural villa. Pottery(1).
Fig. 6/ Pitsidia. Minoan rural villa. Pottery(2).