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anged between the 15 th and the 12 th c. B.C. Among the intact graves of the cemetery, an exceptional place was reserved for the rectangular pit grave, whose excavation offered many surprises and new information for the research on burial customs of the Mycenaean period. One of the most fortunate events of this excavation was the discovery of a small pit at a corner of one of the pillaged chamber tombs, which revealed the ‘Treasure of the Excavation’. The Treasure of Aidonia and other valuable finds from the graves of the cemetery of Aidonia were determinative for the struggle of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture to repatriate the Treasure of Aidonia. Hector Williams, Professor of Classics and Classical Archaeology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Excavations at Ancient Stymphalos From 1982-1984 the Canadian Archaeological Institute carried out a topographical and geophysical survey of the site of ancient Stymphalos in collaboration with the Archaeological Society of Athens. Our work revealed a grid planned city laid out within a circuit of fortification walls and gates on the north shore of Lake Stymphalos. The electrical resisitivity survey, the largest ever done in Greece til then, was particularly effective in locating buried walls and streets. In 1994 the Institute began its own excavations at the site and uncovered fifteen different areas of the city over the next ten summers. Of particular interest was a number of late classical/Hellenistic/early Roman houses and streets just east of the acropolis, a theatre with scene building, a palaestra, a sanctuary to Athena with small temple and altar, a fountain house and nearby heroon, the city walls and gates, and a number of early Byzantine cemeteries; we also found on the surface a dozen inscribed funerary stelai of the Hellenistic period. Finds ranged from a Middle Palaeolithic scraper to Early Helladic lithics to a scattering of late Mycenaean pottery. Most material, however, came from the late classical to early Roman periods and includes one of the largest collections of jewelry ever found in Greece, dedications at the sanctuary of Athena. Of importance too is the large collection of ca. 200 bronze and iron projectile points, some probably from sieges in the late 4 th and mid 2 nd centuries BC, and over 500 coins. Survey in the area around the city also revealed traces of a number of substantial buildings including a Doric temple of the classical period with a marble roof.
Christos Pitteros, Substitute Head, D΄ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities A Cult Cave at Lafka of the Stymphalia Area A Cult Cave at Lafka of the Stymphalia Area In the year 1994, after a written notification addressed by an inhabitant of the Stymphalia area to the then competent D’ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the conducting of an autopsy, an unknown cult cave was signalized on the Messiano mountain (ancient Oligyrtos), at the Tria Goupata site. More particularly, it is a common large calcareous geological dolomite immersion, with a length of approximately 50 m and a width of 30 m. The cave has an E-W orientation with a large cavernous formation at its deepest east side, with a height of approximately 20 m and a smooth access from the west; its larger part is exposed to the weather conditions. Sources: AD 49 (1994) Β1, 161, 52 (1997), Β1, 153-154 The autopsy revealed that the eastern deepest part of the dolomite had suffered in the past from a large-scale illicit excavation, extending in an area of 15x3 m and at a depth of 2-2,5 m. The archaeological embankment reaches a depth of 1-1,507 m. The excavated and agitated black earth revealed various kinds of offerings: Corinthian pottery sherds from the archaic period, small skyphoi, small lekythoi, aryballoi, sherds from black-glazed kylikes. Moreover, we collected pieces from handmade figurines belonging to the common type of the seated female, but also plank-like figurines of the 6 th -5 th century B.C., as well as female figurines created in moulds, small baskets, horse figurines, a clay and a bronze small shield with a 9 cm. diameter bearing inscriptions, fine bronze bands decorated with rosettes, a bronze rosette, a bronze ring with the engraved representation of a warrior, earrings, a bronze fibula, iron nails, a blue bead. Also, we collected animal bones, namely of goats and sheep, wild boars, as well as horns of deer and goats, the remains of cult meals. The nature of the finds as well as their place of discovery clearly manifests that this was a cave dedicated to the cult of chthonic female divinities.
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