DRAPANIAS - 2005

Agios Demetrios, ancient Nopigeia. M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki (KE’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of an early Late Minoan IA deposit (35m x 0.6m, up to 1m deep) in the Agios Demetrios cemetery south of the ancient settlement of Nopigeia. The homogeneous fill (dark brown soil mixed with stones and river pebbles) contained up to 4000 conical cups and deep hemispherical cups, plus cooking pots, bowls, buckets, basins, pithoi, braziers, incense burners, and closed vases with a high foot. Bones and seashells were numerous but there were only six small finds: a clay sealing, two grinders, a quern, a bronze strip, and a piece of pyrite.