Unit:
Department of History and ArchaeologyLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Dissertation committee:
Παναγιώτα Μποζάνα-Κούρου, Ομότιμη καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Παναγιώτα Πολυχρονάκου-Σγουρίτσα, Ομότιμη καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Ελευθέριος Πλάτων, Αναπληρωτής καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιωάννης Παπαδάτος, Αναπληρωτής καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Κωνσταντίνος Κοπανιάς, Αναπληρωτής καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Δημήτριος Πλάντζος, Αναπληρωτής καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Χρύσανθος Κανελλόποθλος, Αναπληρωτής καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Το νεκροταφείο της Αγίας Αγάθης. Συνέχειες ή ασυνέχειες από την Εποχή του Χαλκού στην Εποχή του Σιδήρου στη Ρόδο.
Translated title:
The cemetery of Aghia Agathe. Evidence for continuity or discontinuity from Bronze Age to Iron Age in Rhodes
Summary:
The cemetery of Aghia Agathe. Evidence for continuity or discontinuity from Bronze Age to Iron Age in Rhodes.
Abstract
The present study presents the data and finds from the rescue excavation at the cemetery of Aghia Agathe in Rhodes, with the aim of examining the LBA, especially in its final phase, and the EIA on the island and in the SE Aegean region. Issues and problems related to this remarkable material are examined and attempts are made to date, evaluate and compound the findings, in conjunction with LH IIIC material from other locations in Rhodes, in order to give a more lucid picture of the island in the second half of the middle and the late LH III period. The material and data from the Agia Agathe cemetery are compared with the findings from various EIA cemetery sites on the island, in order to review the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age and to investigate the question of continuity or discontinuity in Rhodes.
Chapter 1 presents the excavation data, with a description of each tomb, regardless of date, and a full catalogue of finds; the remaining chapters only refer to the findings of the LΒA and their comparison with the EIA data. In Chapters 2 to 5, the planning and tomb typology, the pottery and different categories of small finds, as well as the burial practices and burial customs of the cemetery (such as could be discerned, based on the greatly damaged material), are analyzed in detail. A comparison is made with data from the Mycenaean and the EIA cemeteries on the island, the Aegean, as well as the eastern and central Mediterranean. Finally, presented in Chapter 6 is a brief overview of the hitherto known data on the transition period from the end of the LBA to the EIA in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean; in this context the new data from the cemetery of Agia Agathi are placed, in juxtaposition to what is already known from the cemeteries of Ialysia, Kamiris and Lindia since the late 10th c.B.C. and after. The study deals with historical issues, such as the movement of population groups that marks the end of the Bronze Age and the issue of the Dorian permeation in Rhodes, a process that appears completed in archaic times.
The new finds from the Aghia Agathe cemetery, in conjunction with those from the Lindos chamber tombs, prove that the island was not deserted in the second half of the 11th and the 10th c. B.C. The island, far from being deserted, as was suggested by the extreme lack of archaeological evidence until recently, was in fact part of the Eastern Mediterranean contact networks, and saw the settlement of different population groups. The image created on the basis of the new evidence, based solely on burial findings, indicates discontinuity and fragmentation, as compared to the island's uniformity in the LBA, supports the hypothesis that the ‘Dorian colonization’ of the island occurred with small successive installations of groups of different origins, sharing a common Mycenaean past. This hypothesis also interprets the local particularities of the Rhodian regions in the EIA.
Main subject category:
Archaeology
Keywords:
Rhodes, SE Aegean, End of Bronze Age, transition from LBA to EIA, tomb types, burial practices, pottery, tomb contexts
Number of references:
1400
