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The Prehistoric Settlement by Lake Vouliagmeni, Perachora

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

J. M. Fossey
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A Survey carried out in 1964 revealed that this site, briefly reported by Payne as ‘a very small village doubtless inhabited by fishermen’, was more extensive than had been realized. It covers the flatter ground on the low ridge that separates lake from sea, for a length of 570 m. and a maximum width of 100 m. or so. The canal connecting the lake with the sea cuts through the middle of the site and gives a good cross-section of its stratification. There seems to have been some fluctuation in the lake level since prehistoric times, for sherds and traces of walling can be observed in the hardened limestone concretions beneath the present lake's surface.

In 1965 a trial trench 2 m. × 16 m. was opened, almost parallel to the canal and running inland from a point 39 m. to the west of the canal's entrance to the lake. This trench was not taken down to the earliest occupation levels. Four phases of occupation were revealed (Fig. 1), the last being of the seventh century B.C. The other three, all of the Early Helladic period, are designated ‘X’, ‘Y’, and ‘Z’, X being the earliest yet reached. There is absolutely no trace of subsequent occupation until the seventh century B.C., the remains of which occur directly above those of the latest E.H. level.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 64 , November 1969 , pp. 53 - 69
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1969

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References

Abbreviation in addition to those in general use:

Berbati = Säflund, G., ‘Excavations at Berbati’, Stockholm Studies in Classical Archaeology iv (1965).Google Scholar

1 I am extremely grateful to Mr. Roger Howell for the part he played in this survey: his notes on the surface pottery finds have been of great use to me.

2 Perachora i. 9.

3 Perhaps it is these traces that have given rise to the local story reported by Payne (loc. cit.) that the lake is called Vouliagmeni because it swallowed up a city.

4 I wish to express my gratitude to Miss Katherine Trump and Mr. Richard A. Tomlinson for their considerable help with preparing drawings on the site. Mr. Tomlinson again came to my aid in processing the finds in spring 1966 at Perachora Museum where they are now deposited, but not displayed.

5 Hereafter abbreviated to E.H.

6 Remains of this wall and its collapse were preserved under the earth bank of the following phase.

7 If any interval did elapse it could not have been very long, since the pottery of Z is much the same as that of Y: see below.

8 Clear indication that the material for the bank was scraped up from the neighbouring area was provided by a pot of which some fragments occurred in the destruction of Y, and some in the bank fill (Phase Y, jar 29).

9 Berbati 140.

10 Zygouries (Harvard, 1928) 217.

11 Caskey, J. L. and Caskey, E. G., Hesperia xxix (1960) 126 ff.Google Scholar on the supplementary excavations at Eutresis, especially p. 144.

12 Caskey, op. cit. 165.

13 Caskey, ibid.

14 Caskey, op. cit. 164.

15 Op. cit. 163.

16 Berbati 149, especially figs. 114–17.

17 Blegen, Zygouries, loc. cit.

18 Blegen, , Korakou (Boston and New York, 1921) 4.Google Scholar

19 Berbati 159 (class D).

20 On the dating of Aghios Kosmas, cf. Caskey, J. L. on ‘The Early Helladic Period in the Argolid’ in Hesperia xxix 275 ff., especially 300.Google Scholar

21 It is hoped to present a short separate note on this material later.

22 Caskey, on Eutresis, Hesperia xxix. 126 ff.Google Scholar, passim.

23 Caskey, op. cit. pl. 53, III. 22, IV. 23–5.

24 Caskey, ibid.

25 Caskey, , ‘The E.H. Period in the Argolid’, Hesperia xxix. 293.Google Scholar