Azoria
Azoria ( Greek Αζοριάς ( m. Sg. ) Azorias ) is a hill on Crete near the village of Kavousi and about 3 km from the sea. It is the location of an archaic Greek city. The first settlement remains date from around 1200 BC. In the following years the place remained populated. Around 600 BC A city was built here, which was destroyed by fire in the early fifth century. There are modest remains of a later settlement from around 200 BC. One of the excavated buildings of the archaic city is a public dining room, which may have been an Andreion . It occupies an area of about 200 m². There are benches on the walls. Part of the complex is also a small sanctuary that consists of two rooms. In addition, the building has storage rooms and three kitchens. There were Greek inscriptions on broken glass, but also an inscription in Eeteocretic . Such inscriptions are otherwise very rare.
Since 2002 the city has been excavated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill together with the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete under the direction of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens .
literature
- Sebastian Zöller: The society of the early "dark centuries" on Crete. An examination of the archaeological legacies of the population of Crete during the Late Minoan IIIC and Sub-Minoan Periods in terms of their social significance and significance. Master's thesis, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2005, pp. 67–68 ( PDF; 1391.54 kB and PDF of the blackboard section; 8.6 MB )
- J. Whitley: Crete , in: A Companion to Archaic Greece , ed. KA Raaflaub and H. van Wees, West Sussex 2009, pp. 273-293.
- Donald C. Haggis, Margaret S. Mook: The Archaic Houses at Azoria . In: Kevin T. Glowacki, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (Ed.): Stega: The Archeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete (= Hesperia Supplement . Volume 44 ). The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011, ISSN 1064-1173 , pp. 367–380 ( online [accessed November 21, 2018]).
- Elisabeth Mlinar: Fortified cities, settlements and other fortification structures in Crete from the Archaic to the end of the Hellenistic period . Dissertation. tape 1 . University of Vienna, Vienna 2014, Dimos Ierapetras, p. 112–113 ( digitized version [PDF; accessed on November 9, 2018]).
- Rodney D. Fitzsimons: Urbanization and the Emergence of the Greek Polis: The Case of Azoria, Crete . In: Andrew T. Creekmore III, Kevin D. Fisher (Eds.): Making Ancient Cities: Space and Place in Early Urban Societies . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-04652-8 , pp. 220–256 (English, online [accessed December 20, 2018]).
- Donald C. Haggis, Margaret S. Mook: Stratigraphic Excavations at Azoria in 2015 . In: Kentro . tape 18 . INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, Philadelphia 2015, p. 18–23 (English, digitized version [PDF; 3.3 MB ; accessed on December 11, 2018]).
Web links
- Donald Haggis: The Azoria Project. University of North Carolina, November 30, 2017, accessed November 6, 2018 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 7 ' N , 25 ° 52' E