The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications together with Works, has announced that a 5th articulation earthworks movement betwixt the Universities of Ghent, Louvain together with the Mediterranean Archaeological Society took house at Pyla-Kokkinokremos from the 27th of March until the 26th of May.
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| Fig. 1: The pit with consummate pithoid scandalize flora inwards Room 12-13 [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus] |
Sector 4
Several rooms were partly or completely excavated inwards Sector 4. Their primary feature is the bully depth of deposit, inwards places upwardly to 3 metres against the gradient of the plateau. Specific stratigraphic details signal to a natural disaster, maybe a seismic event, which led to the collapse of component of the plateau together with the partial sealing of rooms built against it. The earthworks of these rooms brought to lite novel details suggesting a precipitous together with real quick difference of the inhabitants from the site, patently inwards the facial expression upwardly of needlelike danger.
Thus, inwards Room 8 ca. 100 loom weights, withal unbaked together with inwards the procedure of beingness made with raw strips of clay, were placed inwards a perishable container, maybe a handbasket with an oval shape, equally their location on the bedrock suggests. The strips of clay were withal malleable. It is the firstly fourth dimension that such twelfth century BC clay becomes available inwards considerable quantities, ideal for scientific investigation. Fragments of charcoal together with burnt soil buried nether the collapse of the plateau volition render of import chronological details regarding the abandonment together with partial devastation of to a greater extent than or less buildings.
Further loom weights, fired this time, came to lite inwards Rooms 15-16 suggesting the possible location of a loom. In Room 12-13 a pit was found. It contained a consummate pithoid scandalize (Fig. 1). The earthworks continued inwards the partly investigated Rooms 25 together with 43-37bin Sector 4.1. It became clear that these rooms travel on farther to the east, towards the centre of the westward lobe of the plateau.
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| Fig. 2: Sector five located on the south-eastern sector of the summit plateau [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus] |
Sector five is located on the south-eastern sector of the summit plateau (Fig. 2). Five earthworks seasons accept resulted inwards the uncovering of 34 spaces, built on iii distinct terraces. Spaces 21-34 were excavated during the 2018 campaign. The architecture inside this sector is remarkably good preserved, peculiarly against the slope. So far, the remains of Sector five present no signs of a clear north-south external façade suggesting the presence of a casemate wall.
Spaces 5.26 together with 5.28 each seem to accept held an outer (settlement) entrance which appears to accept been unopen off at to a greater extent than or less signal inwards time. If so, the rock-cut shafts side yesteryear side to the entrance inwards both these rooms mightiness accept belonged to a after phase, since they would non check inside the context of an entrance. Another prominent chemical ingredient inwards Space 5.26 is a large, well-cut, trapezoid ashlar block.
Space 5.31 generated an ensemble of finds, namely iii dozen chunks of ore neatly stacked inside a rectangular surface amongst a consummate pithos, a stone hammer together with a ca. 2,5 kilo heavy Pb block – denoting the utilization of this room equally component of a metallic workshop. Assemblages of bronze objects were unearthed inwards Spaces 5.2 (excavated inwards 2014) together with 5.21. The latter yielded a concentration of to a greater extent than than 100 bronze fragments equally good equally a sickle, an arrowhead together with earrings; presumably all these bronze objects had been collected inwards a vessel. Some other interesting finds are a large stone tripod mortar or vessel (Space 5.25) together with a bronze arrowhead, likely intentionally deposited inside a fissure inwards the bedrock flooring (Space 5.28).
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| Fig. 3: Limestone quarry discovered during the topographical survey of the Kokkinokremos colina [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus] |
During the topographical survey of the Kokkinokremos colina a large, hitherto non-published limestone quarry was discovered (Fig. 3). Located straightaway below the westward lobe of the plateau on which the Late Bronze Age small town is situated (Sector 4), the quarry extents over ca. 500 metres², with a width of xl metres together with a length betwixt fifteen to 24 metres.
The exploitation, either yesteryear chisels or stone picks, is illustrated yesteryear the commons extraction channels (ca. 8 to 10 cm wide) inwards the stone equally good equally several, unfinished regular blocks. No surface sherds were observed, therefore farther written report is necessary to arrive at upwardly one's heed whether the quarry already dates to the Bronze Age or to the historical menses trouble that is attested inwards the proximity. This said, several ashlar blocks were also noted on the surface of the Bronze Age site together with to a greater extent than or less were either flora reused inwards the walls or used equally lintels.
Source: Department of Antiquities, Republic of Republic of Cyprus [July 26, 2018]
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