Chalioti

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Late Helladic crater decorated with flowers and murex shells from the chamber tombs of Chalioti.

Chalioti ( Greek Χαλιώτη ) is a district of Peristeria in the southeast of the Greek island of Salamis . It is located on the east coast of the island and connects directly to the north of Peristeria. A group of Mycenaean graves were discovered near the hamlet.

Mycenaean cemetery

In 1950, the American archaeologist David Moore Robinson published the purchase of a small hoard. According to his information, this hoard should come from a chamber grave on the island of Salamis. It consisted of five clay vessels from the late Helladic period (SH II – III): a cup with a handle, a Vaphio beaker , a jug , an amphora and an oinochoe . It also comprised ten clay figures - seven of the so-called Phi and three of the Psi figures. Since the figures can all be dated in SH III, Robinson suspected that the grave also came from this time.

It was assumed that these objects came from a chamber grave near Chalioti. Thereupon the Greek archaeologist Efthymios Mastrokostas carried out rescue excavations in Chalioti in 1959 and discovered a group of three chamber graves. The graves date to the time SH IIIA1 – B1 (14th – 13th centuries BC). He found numerous well-preserved ceramic objects. Among them were two Rhyta with loop-shaped handles from the time SH III A2 late. In chamber grave 2, among other things, a gray-brown to black seal made of steatite came to light. Some of the finds are exhibited in the Salamis Archaeological Museum .

Web links

Commons : Chalioti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Moore Robinson: A Small Hoard of Mycenaean Vases and Statuettes in American Journal of Archeology , Volume 54, No. 1 (Jan-Mar, 1950), pp. 1-9
  2. ↑ Małgorzata Siennicka: Mycenaean settlement patterns in the Saronic Gulf 2002 ( online )
  3. ↑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΚΑΠΗΛΟΙ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΣΑΛΑΜΙΝΑ. Εσυλήθησαν δέκα τρείς μζκηναϊκί τάφοι. in Έθνος from August 10, 1959 ( online )
  4. ^ Konstantinos P. Paschalidis: New pictorial ceramic finds from Brauron, Attica: Stylistic evidence for local production. in Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici (SMEA) No. 43/1, 2001, p. 107 ( online )
  5. ^ Friedrich Matz : Corpus of the Minoan and Mycenaean seals. Volume V. Smaller Greek Collections. , Part 2, Berlin 1975, pp. 531-532 ( online )

Coordinates: 37 ° 53 '12.2 "  N , 23 ° 27' 59.7"  E