ARTA - Anc. Ambracia - Chronique des fouilles

ARTA - Anc. Ambracia
INFORMATIONS GÉNÉRALES
CARTOGRAPHIE
Numéro de
notice
3107
Pays
Année de
l'opération
2001
Région
Nature de
Fouille - Sauvetage
l'opération
ΙΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ
Institution(s)
Fiche(s)
associée(s)
Épire
Préfecture
Arta
Toponyme
Arta
Nom du site
2000 - 2001 - 2001 - 2004
Grèce
ARTA - Anc. Ambracia
Secteur
NOTICE
Arta (anc. Ambracia), Krystalli Street (Charitou property). A. Angeli (ΙΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on
continued excavation in the east cemetery of ancient Ambracia. A 12m-long and 6m-wide
section of the funerary street was uncovered, with a paved path along the east side; the road
was partially paved and partially made of stones and gravel in beaten earth. Walls bounded it
to east and west; that on the west was broken for the entrance to the cemetery. Within the
cemetery, slight walls belong to crude, later constructions rather than to funerary periboloi. By
contrast with the west cemetery, where Π-shaped periboloi were found along the funerary
street, tombs in the east cemetery were more loosely arranged in pairs or groups.
Forty-five tombs were found, ranging in date from Archaic to Hellenistic but focused in the
Classical period. This figure includes 19 cist tombs (many with more than one burial) built of
limestone slabs, 12 simple pits, two with stone-built walls, two child burials in tile graves, one
inurned cremation, two limestone sarcophagi (one placed inside a built tomb), and five
cremation urns set in stone containers. Grave goods included pots (amphorae, lekythoi,
skyphoi, kantharoi, lamps, pyxides, kylikes, plates, lachrymateria, lagynoi, and bowls),
terracotta figurines, iron strigils, bronze mirrors, bone astragaloi, a bronze hydria used a
cremation urn, and a bronze phiale.
Figurine - Métal - Os - Nécropole
Mots-clés
Antiquité - Archaïque - Classique - Hellénistique
Chronologie
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Référence
bibliographique
Auteur de la
notice
ADelt 56-59 (2001-2004) B5, 10.
MORGAN Catherine
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