MOUNT LYKAION Sanctuary of Zeus - 2010
General Information
Record ID
1879
Activity Date
2010
Chronologies
Bronze Age - Early Bronze Age - Middle Bronze Age - Late Bronze Age
Iron Age - Protogeometric / Late Dark Age - Geometric
Antiquity - Archaïc - Classical - Hellenistic
Keywords
Sanctuary - Hydraulic installation - Sporting establishment - Metal - Numismatics - Figurine - Stoa - Fountain - Bath
Type of Operation
Institution
Localisation / Geographical Information
Toponym
Lykaion, Derbouni
Lykaion, Derbouni
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Report
Mt. Lykaion, Sanctuary of Zeus. M. Petropoulos (Director, ΛΘ’ ΕΠΚΑ), D. Romano (Pennsylvania), and M. Voyatzis (Arizona) report on the 2010 season.
Work continued to document all architectural remains, notably the 67m long stoa and the 39m long series of seats to the north of it, the nearby fountain house, the ‘corridor’ in front of the ‘xenon’, and the bath (Fig. 1). A team from the ΛΘ’ ΕΠΚΑ cleared a portion of the ancient Agno fountain, halfway between the lower and upper levels of the sanctuary.
Stratigraphic sequences continue to reveal evidence for the earliest activity at the altar (Fig. 2). This includes Late Neolithic and Early, Middle and Late Helladic pottery, most of it mixed with burnt animal bones. Mycenaean material includes large numbers of kylikes, deep bowls, stemmed bowls, cups, askoi, terracotta human and animal figurines and other small finds. Above this level lay Sub-Mycenaean and Dark Age material, and above that, Geometric, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic sherds in an apparently continuous sequence. Bronze tripods, coins, metal objects and miniature dedications were discovered. Finally, 50 m below the altar, to the south of the southern summit, a roadway or dromos was investigated.
In the lower sanctuary (Fig. 3), more of the sub-surface open air corridor was exposed northeast of the ‘xenon’, plus more of the front and interior foundations and the western end of the stoa (Figs 4-6). Excavation was also pursued in the vicinity of the statue bases, in the fountain house, and in the area of the hippodrome where part of the surface of the hippodrome floor was found (Fig. 7).
A proposal for a Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos is under discussion.
Author
Catherine MORGAN
Bibliographic reference(s)
Unpublished field report, American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The project website is http://lykaionexcavation.org The park website is http://parrhasianheritagepark.org
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Date of creation
2011-02-28 00:00:00
Last modification
2023-10-06 13:49:50
Picture(s)
Fig. 1/ Mt Lykaion: plan of stoa area.
Fig. 2/ Mt Lykaion: plan of upper site.
Fig. 3/ Mt Lykaion: plan of lower site.
Fig. 4/ Mt Lykaion: stoa in trench DD.
Fig. 5/ Mt Lykaion: stoa in trench EE.
Fig. 6/ Mt Lykaion: stoa in trench M.
Fig. 7/ Mt Lykaion: hippodrome floor in trench HH.