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Excavations at Petras, Siteia, 1987

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• Τσιποπούλου, Μεταξία

1987 was the third year of work at Petras, the Minoan settlement at the town of Siteia; it was carried out at the following places on the site:1. The large retaining wall that girdles the extensive plateau on the summit of the hill. The wall is dated to the Neopa- latial period (fig. 1).2. The north side of the plateau on the summit, where a half-destroyed rectangular building was uncovered, also of the Neopalatial period. The natural rock had been used for the floor; the depressions in the rock were levelled up with earth containing numerous Prepalatial sherds that had evidently come from the destruction of earlier buildings.3. Various points on the hill: 14 trial trenches were excavated (figs 3-5), in a number of which Neopalatial walls were found.4. The rock-cut path on the east slope of the hill.5. The massive wall at the foot of the hill on the NW (figs 6-7). The wall is preserved to a height of 2.5 m. and has large, nearly square towers. Trenches opened at its foundation showed that this was also built in the Neopalatial period.An attempt was also made to locate the spots where excavations had been carried out in 1900 by R. C. Bosanquet.Finally, in the course of the continuing surface survey of the Gulf of Siteia, Minoan remains, probably LM I, were noted in the locality of Aspourgas, 1500 m. E. of Petras. A large bed of yellowish white clay was preserved there, which was probably used by a local pottery workshop, chiefly in the Neopalatial period.The preliminary report ends with a select catalogue of the pottery (figs 8-10).

• History and Archaeology

• Ανασκαφές (Αρχαιολογία)

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