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Aigeira 2012. Bericht zu Aufarbeitung und Grabung

    Walter Gauss, Rudolfine Smetana , Jeremy B. Rutter, Julia Dorner, Petra Eitzinger, Christina Klein, Andrea Kurz, Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Manuela Leibetseder, Christina Regner, Harald Stümpel, Alexandra Tanner, Conor Trainor, Maria Trapichler

Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, Band 82/2013, pp. 69-92, 2024/10/15

doi: 10.1553/oejh82s69

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Abstract

The most important results of the 2012 excavations at Aigeira are the discovery of the LH IIIC fortification
wall of the acropolis and the unambiguous proof of a ›lower town settlement‹. At this time, the LH IIIC
Middle/Late fortifications are amongst the latest newlyconstructed
Bronze Age fortifications on the Greek mainland. They were built after a disastrous fire, represented by a massive destruction horizon on the
acropolis. The stratigraphic sequence already recovered at the fortification wall and in selected parts of
the ›lower town settlement‹, even before the completion of the excavations, permits a clearer and more detailed definition of the LH IIIC through Early Iron Age (MG/LG) occupation of these sectors of the site. Geophysical measurements on the eastern plateau of the acropolis were conducted, in order to examine
the extent of the LH and Early Iron Age settlements. Numerous linear structures, presumably walls, were
measured, the most interesting of which is a ca. 7 × 10 m large rectangular anomaly in the central plateau. In the area of the Hellenistic theatre the study and reorganisation of the finds from the old excavations
were continued and already permit a clearer and better picture of the chronology of the various buildings.
Geophysical research in this area showed building activity between Naiskos F and the Tycheion, whereas
the area in front of the theatre does not seem to have been occupied. Most important for the topography of
the theatre area is the unambiguous identification of Building C. Its exact location was unknown since the
building was reburied after O. Walter’s partial excavation.