KNOSSOS - Teke - Chronique des fouilles

KNOSSOS - Teke
INFORMATIONS GÉNÉRALES
CARTOGRAPHIE
Numéro de
notice
2804
Pays
Grèce
Année de
l'opération
2010
Région
Crète
Nature de
Fouille - Sauvetage
l'opération
ΚΓ’ ΕΠΚΑ
Institution(s)
Fiche(s)
associée(s)
Préfecture
Héraklion
Toponyme
Knossos, Knosos
Nom du site
KNOSSOS - Teke
Secteur
NOTICE
Knossos, Teke (property of G. and N. Frangiadakis) . M. Rousaki (ΚΓ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the
discovery, in the course of rescue excavation, of Protogeometric to Orientalising tombs (plus a
few of later date) from the Teke section of the Knossos North Cemetery was uncovered (Fig. 1).
Most burials were cremations and enchytrismoi, with one inhumation only. Three types of tomb
were found. There were two chamber tombs cut into the kouskouras bedrock, oriented
northwest-southeast, with a long sloping dromos with burial niches in the sides and a round or
elliptical chamber. The entrances, framed by large limestone slabs, were blocked with stones.
One tomb was robbed. The vases (Fig. 2), found in the chamber, were mostly complete but
broken by the roof fall. The numerous finds include: amphorae, kraters, pithoi with conical lids
(Fig. 3), bell-skyphoi, lekythoi, oinochoes, cups, a prochous, askoi, a kalathos, a pyxis and
feeding-bottle, terracotta figurines (a horse and a quadruped), a bronze lebes and a bowl,
brooches and pins, chains and earrings, iron blades and fire-dogs, a silver pin, and glass,
faience and rock-crystal beads.
In the Late Geometric period the tomb roof collapsed, leaving a depression into which were
placed 24 items including cremation urns. The vases range from the Late Geometric/Early
Orientalizing transition to the end of the Orientalizing period.
The second tomb type (with 17 examples) is a roughly-dug pit. The third consists of scattered
cists of irregular form: 12 are recorded, with associated ash-urns and burial pithoi. Grave goods
are mostly pots (pithoi, pithoid amphorae and amphorae, cups, lekythoi, an aryballos and an
alabastron), plus a few metal items (gold beads, a silver pin, and bronze brooches, pins, rings
and a necklace).
Figurine - Parure/toilette - Verre - Nécropole
Mots-clés
Âge du fer - Protogéométrique - Géométrique
Chronologie
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Référence
bibliographique
Auteur de la
notice
http://www.yppo.gr/0/anaskafes/pdfs/KC_EPKA.pdf
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