Αρχαία Καλίνδοια : η συνέχεια της έρευνας στο συγκρότημα του Σεβαστείου
Part of : Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη ; Vol.21, No.1, 2007, pages 293-302
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Ancient Kalindoia : ongoing research at the Sebasteion complex
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In 2007, the excavation of Room ΣΤ was completed, and that of the seventh consecutive room in the complex (Room Z) began. Rooms ΣΤ and Z are connected in a manner that to date is unique, viz. through an entrance in their dividing wall. Room ΣΤ has interior dimensions of 7.15x7.75 m., and on its back wall (preserved to a height of 1.60 m.) it preserves white plaster imitation of marble orthostates, with finished surfaces, etc. As in the five previous rooms, here too there was originally an entrance to the outside in the center of the wall of its façade; however, in a second phase of repair or remodeling of the room it was blocked up with small bricks. A total of six marble statue bases (three to the right, three to the left of the original entrance) were found attached to its front wall. Most of them also have preserved both their molded imposts as well as part of the built core of orthostates atop these. On the basis of the data gathered to date, we are unable to understand the function of Room ΣΤ, which in any case must have been connected with the corresponding function of the adjacent Room Z, the only room it communicated with. The most important portable finds in the room included an inset marble neck from the statue of a male, and a marble pessiskos-h\b\e support, 0.80 m. in height, with lettering of the 1st century A.D. and preserving the inscription: ΤΥΧΗΝ/ ΠΟΛΕΩΣ/ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑΣ/ ΤΟΙΣ ΚΥ/ΡΙΟΙΣ.The complex’s next Room Z was investigated along part of its north and west sides only. The most important distinguishing feature of this room in relation to all the previous ones is the fact that its back wall is about 2.00 m. recessed towards its interior, resulting in a significant decrease in its width. This, as well as a number of other excavation data (such as the high pedestal for statues running along its back wall) and the finds to date from this room would lend support to the view that perhaps we are dealing here with an unusual oblong construction, which might very well be identified with the “Exedra” of the votive relief found last year. We can infer that the exedra was built as a base for statues from the large number of interesting finds gathered to date that had fallen right in front of the pedestal along the back wall, the most important of which included the following: two headless, nearly identical, small statues of standing male figures wearing himatia; a female statue of the “Small Herakleiotissa” type with realistic features; two male statue heads (one with idealized, the other with realistic features); a realistic female statuette head; a small statuette of a seated Cybele; a considerable number of additional fragments from statues and architectural members; inscription fragments, and a large marble bowl from a perirrhanterion. Finally, a noteworthy find was that of the upper part of a large marble honorary decree by the ephebes of Kalindoia to their Gymnasiarch (preserving 22 lines), which, like the four similar decrees from the same area that are now in the Museum of Thessaloniki, is datable to the second half of the 1st century A.D.
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Θεσσαλονίκη
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