Αρχαιολογικές έρευνες στη διπλή τράπεζα της Αγχιάλου (Σίνδος) κατά το 1990
Part of : Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη ; Vol.4, No.1, 1990, pages 315-332
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Excavation at the double table of Anghialos (Sindos) in 1990eng
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The archaeological investigation at the double Table of Anghialos, near modern Sindos, 15 km west from Thessaloniki is presented in this paper. The investigation was carried out by a group of undergraduate and graduate students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, under my supervision. Already in 1964 this site yielded interesting finds, and namely the excellent S. Greek Geometric pottery and a few vessels used in bronze workshops. This year we carried out a trench 4x2 m. and 5 m. deep, and at this level welocated a floor with pottery dated to 800 B.C. A very uncommon bird-shaped terracotta figurine was found on it. A biconical pithos containing burnt cereals, grapes etc. was found in situ on the successive floor. The earliest mud-brick walls discovered in our trench were probably destroyed about 700 B.C.: the destruction layer contained whole pots and among them a probably Euboean sub-mycenaean one, which dated the «local» pottery. The successive layer dates to the 7th century and the following about570 B.C.; a mud-brick wall, 1.70 m. high, of this last layer was preserved. The buildings were destroyed in the last decades of the 6th century B.C., probably by an earthquake, and a workshop, probably for the process of Chalastrian nitre, was built there afterwards. The first stone wall of our trench dates to 470 B.C. The 4th century, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeological strata which were testified in the double Table of Anghialos did not survive in our times. Pottery and other finds were collected from the double Table and the surrounding area. I should mention here the significant variety of the S. Greek (and mainly Euboean) pottery. Many fragments of various local pots of different periods, Atticvases and mainly black-glazed, pointed amphorae of various workshops and especially from Chios were among the finds. There is also a small quantity of Corinthian pottery. Finally, a 5th century black-glazed handle with the inscription ΑΡΓΑΝΘΟΝΙΟΣ was also an important find. Finally, I would like to mention that if the analyses of the by-products of the workshop, mentioned above, testify the process of Chalastrian nitre, the location of ancient Chalastra at the double Table is further supported.
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Σίνδος, συνέδρια
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