KEPHALA Krioneridas - Chronique des fouilles

KEPHALA Krioneridas
INFORMATIONS GÉNÉRALES
Numéro de
notice
1856
Année de
l'opération
2007
Nature de
Fouille - Sauvetage
l'opération
Ministry of Culture & Tourism
(28th ΕΒΑ)
Institution(s)
Fiche(s)
associée(s)
CARTOGRAPHIE
Pays
Grèce
Région
Crète
Préfecture
Chania (ou La Canée)
Toponyme
Vryses APOKORONOU
Nom du site
KEPHALA Krioneridas
Secteur
NOTICE
Kephala. A. Fiolitaki (28 t h EBA) reports on excavations conducted between 2005-2007 at an Early
Byzantine farmstead (Fig. 1) . Five rooms were opened: four of essentially the same constructional
phase form a cluster, with the fifth (room A) off to the southeast. The first unit is served by two
entrances, from the north and the east (the latter serving rooms set three steps down from the
others). Rooms B1/2 (Fig. 2) were used for storage, as shown by 17 pithoi, sunk and plastered home in
their pits (two cist graves, one with plaster poured over it, must have been placed there after the
building had been abandoned). Rooms Δ and E combine storage with living: more pot-pits and low
stone benches on the east, south and west walls were found, as were knife blades, a lead handle for a
box, a small bronze pin and two finger-rings. Room A probably had two storeys: roof tiles were found
along with irregular stone slabs and traces of wooden support beams for the upper floor. Two shallow
pits and a V-shaped drainage system were cut into the rock inside the room at one end. Outside the
east and south walls were further drains and parts of three stone mortars. Other spaces in the open
zones around the rooms were defined by stone (e.g. a circular space to the northwest). West of room Δ
were two ovens. Ceramic evidence dates most of the floor deposits of the first unit to AD 530-580, with
some lamps and amphorae allowing an upper limit of the early seventh century AD. This accords with
the two coins found, of Phocas (AD 602-607) and of Constans II (AD 642-643).
Ferme - Sépulture - Lampe - Monnaie - Outillage/armement - Parure/toilette Métal - Pierre
Mots-clés
Période byzantine - Protobyzantine
Chronologie
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Référence
bibliographique
Auteur de la
notice
AEK 1 (2010), 745-66
EVELY Don
IMAGES
Fig. 1
Fig. 2