Κωνσταντία 1998-2000 : το νεκροταφείο των τύμβων και η ευρύτερη περιοχή
Part of : Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη ; Vol.14, No.1, 2000, pages 505-518
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Konstandia 1998-2000 : the mound cemetery and the wider area
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The supplementary excavation of the mound cemetery in the rural area of Konstandia, Pella prefecture, in 1998 and 2000 (Figs. 1A, 2A II; PI. 1) investigated mounds 14-40, which comprised the W cluster of graves. Few new data came to light regarding either the structure of the mounds and the graves they contained or their dating through the finds.The mounds in Almopia and on Païko are above-ground agglomerations of stones enclosing oval and rectangular tombs with an entrance and a short dromos (PI. 2). The tombs have pseudo-corbelled or flat roofs. The new investigations, of graves which have unfortunately been disturbed or plundered in the ancient or the modem period, showed that there were flat platform-like mounds containing low tombs (Fig. 4), mounds with cist-graves without a dromos (Fig. 3), and probably hypogea with no mound (Fig. 5).Vessels with grooved decoration, which were found with crossbow fibulae (PI. 5), help to date the first use of the mounds to the Early Iron Age, though without excluding the Bronze Age. Apart from the grooved kantharoi, other Iron Age shapes are common, vessels with one or two handles, cutaway prochoi, as also later shapes of the Archaic and Early Classical periods, such as exaleiptra (PI. 7).The metal grave goods, of which there are over 100, include all the known categories: numerous hairslides, beads, rings, syrinxes, bracelets (including 1 in the shape of an anchor), spectacle fibulae, and various types of crossbow fibulae. Like the exaleiptra, the crossbow fibula with the rings on the bow in PI. 9 suggests a dating in the Late Archaic and the Classical period.Trial trenches and sherds collected from the site of the ancient settlement to the E of the cemetery indicated a lifespan from the Late Bronze Age to the Late Roman or Early Christian period (Figs. IB, 2B I-III; PI. 10, 11). However, there is evidence of habitation in the wider area too, in the form of small settlements (Figs. 1Γ-Ε, H) or a village (Fig. 1Z). However, the most important of all the sites seems to be the Theodoraki fortress with a village at the foot of the hill (Fig. 1Θ). From the village we have coins of the Late Classical to the Early Christian period. The fortress was probably built to control the road which connected Almopia with Bottiaia across Païko; though it may have had something to do with the metalliferous strata reported in Païko.
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