AGIA IRENE - 2005

Agia Irene. P. Karamaliki (KE ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of Late Minoan and Hellenistic buildings on the east slope of the hill. Sparse LMIIIC architectural remains were revealed in an area where Hellenistic strata had been removed by a mechanical digger. One room had an in situ floor deposit of tripod cooking pots, cups, and storage vessels. Elsewhere, three rooms of a large third- to second-century BC building were revealed, but the external walls of the structure were not found. One room, which had a low bench along one wall and a square base, contained a large quern stone, lamps, braziers, cups and jugs, and a figurine depicting two armed figures. A second room contained ten pithoi and amphorae, plus 20 other vases and 56 loomweights.