chania - Chronique des fouilles

CHANIA
INFORMATIONS GÉNÉRALES
CARTOGRAPHIE
Numéro de
notice
2837
Pays
Grèce
Année de
l'opération
2007
Région
Crète
Nature de
Fouille
l'opération
ΚΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ and 28th EBA
Institution(s)
Préfecture
Chania (ou La Canée)
Toponyme
Chania, Cydonia, La Canée,
Canea, Khania
Nom du site
Fiche(s)
associée(s)
Secteur
CHANIA
Agios Rokkos
NOTICE
Chania. Agios Rokkos. M. Milidakis (ΚΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavations within the church in
Daskaloyianni Street carried out in 2007 in collaboration with the 28th EBA. Protected by their
position, phases elsewhere removed since World War II were here available for study.
The first occupation was in EM II (2600-2300 BC): a stone scatter on bedrock, accompanied by
pots of Vasiliki ware. Though a continuous presence was noted thereafter, up to LM IIIC (12001100 BC), little can be said of the use of the area. Numerous finds are associated, and two
walls of different phases recorded. One hearth was associated with an LM IIIA1 floor – ash,
stone tools (pounders and grinders) and limpet shells suggest work or food preparation was
carried out here – and another hearth at the same depth and perhaps date was found a little to
the west, outside the church. A second hearth, in the same area as the first, is associated with
an LM IIIC floor.
A fourth-century BC pit at the northwest extended outside the church: its presence forced the
Venetian builders to provide deeper and stronger foundations for the church wall here. Other
pits are associated with the preparation of the ground for the construction of the church, and
before the laying of the terracotta floor tiles.
Mots-clés
Âge du bronze - Bronze moyen - Bronze récent - Antiquité - Classique Hellénistique
Chronologie
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Référence
bibliographique
Auteur de la
notice
Xania (Kydonia), A tour to sites of ancient memory (Ministry of Culture and
Tourism, 2009), 78-85.
PITT Robert