KAZı SONUÇLARI - Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı

echoed by the panel with its text written in Turkish, ltalian and English, situated nearthe tower to teli the visitor its history.Burials of Classical Age (Figs. 3,4).Before leaving iV century BC lasos, i wish to mention a study set up by a colleagueof ours, O. Henry, with the aim of collocating local funerary monument types thatcan be dated between the V centuryand the Hellenistic period within an overall regianalcontext. This analysis began with a group of burials situated near the outermoststrip of mainland (on the promontory west of lasos): though previously plundered, theyhad been the object of excavations back in the early 1970s.One monument stands out among the rest for its pasition commanding the seaand its more elaborate layout, which appears to have included a podium with widesteps: at the time of excavations, this tomb was called "Macedonian". Further distinguishingelements are the superb workmanship of the funeral chamber interior and thepresence of a pair of sarcophagi, devastated by plunderers, which were removed andtaken to the Mission house for restoratian.Strangely enough, in the Iight of new evidence - particularly concerning the re­Iatianship between dromos and stomion - it seems that one of the sarcophagi was uti­Iised in theiate V-early IV century B.C. and the other in the Iate LV century B.C.; aswork proceeds, this hypothesis shall be confirmed or denied by more exhaustive analysisof this particular tomb and the group of burials as a whole.Excavations on the East Coast of the Peninsula Figs. 5,6).The second object of excavations in 2001 concerned the little church situated almoston the beach, on the east coast of the peninsula.We are standing outside the city walls. Here, in the '60s, Doro Levi dug a trenchright beside the city gate known as the East Gate: in this way, the successive elevationsof ground level from the IV century BC up to the Byzantine period could be observed,as well as the system used for draining effluent into the sea.lt seems Iikely that the docks of the eastern harbour occupied this stretch of coastline,and that they were not very far from the East Gate. Indeed, several finds madeby D. Levi, although chronologically diverse, bear out this hypothesis, suggestingthat berthing and entry to the city were closely connected and would remain so for along time.Brought to light during the Levi excavations was the altar of Menes, son of Tyrtaeus,of the Asclepiadi genos, evidently dedicated to Asclepios Apobaterios at the placewhere the gad himself was believed to have landed. When one is then faced withthe column representing Herakles, it is impossible not to gather the religious referenceto the most suitable gad to represent a port, place "par exeilence" of commerce andtrade.In other words, this was an area which played a fundamental role in the topographyof the town (the same horos of the temenos of Zeus Megistos is engraved on theEast Gate) and where the phenomenon of subsidence appears more evident thananywhere else. The fact that, in olden times, the landscape had a very different outlinefrom the present day is attested by the fact that severalaf the tombs of the necropolissurraunding the church are now under water.The excavations began from thebuilding whose remains mark out the area.The church has a nave and two aisles, with curvilinear apses. Its walls, partlypreserved, rise up in places as far as the roof impost, alsa at the front. The façade waspreceded by an avant-corps irregularly quadrilateral in shape; outbuildings were presenton the south side.353