ARCHAEOLOGICAL MEETING OF THESSALY AND CENTRAL GREECE, 2003-2005
FROM PREHISTORY TO THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

Paper abstract

Excavation at Eretria by the Swiss School of Archaeology. New Results and hypothesis concerning some geometric finds from the West Quarter.

Claude S. Lederrey

[lic. phil., University of Lausanne and Athens]

In the past a considerable quantity of geometric finds have been excavated underneath the structures of the classical-hellenistic house IV in the southern part of the West Quarter of Eretria (B/600): a well, two pits and a geometric grave. Although the quantity of the randomly found geometric artefacts is rather impressive, neither the geometric strata have been excavated systematically in this area, nor the artefacts were connected with other geometric finds of the West Quarter. After a break of 13 years, the Swiss School will try to find some answers to these open questions by conducting another excavation in the West Quarter in 2005 (B/600 - house IV). The main goals of the campaign will be the systematic documentation of the geometric strata, and establishing the chronology of some so far undated walls. However, working on the geometric well΄s and pits΄ fillings is underway for two years. Recent observations concerning the ceramics point to the possibility, that some of the material must have had its original context in the northern part of the West Quarter – in the area of the ΄Heroon΄.