Agios Elias of Asea, Arcadia

Vol. 1. Agios Elias of Asea, Arcadia. From early sanctuary to medieval village

Edited by Jeannette Forsén

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. Also available at Amazon.com, Adlibris, and Bokus.

A brief four-week excavation campaign in 1997 at the temple on top of the mountain of Agios Elias at Asea produced abundant archaeological material which partly is presented in this study, along with a stratigraphic report of part of the excavated area. The pottery, miniature vessels, miscellaneous terracotta finds, roof tiles, faunal and human bones, glass, coins, sculpture and miscellaneous stone objects are included in the present work. The first focus of activities at the site took place around c. 720–690 BC (Early Protocorinthian). No architecture was found in connection with this period. However, roof tiles of a temple and some auxiliary buildings from c. 590–560 BC (Middle Corinthian–Late Corinthian I) are accompanied by a large amount of pottery which point at a second floruit of the site during this period. Some of the pottery is local/regional, with other examples originating from many parts of southern Greece in addition to Attica and possibly East Greece as well. During the 14th century AD a village, named Kandreva, and church existed where the ancient temple once stood, as indicated by numerous burials, pottery finds, and coins. Then, as during ancient times, the presence of exotic pottery indicates that, although seemingly “hidden” in the Arcadian mountains, this site was far from isolated.

Contents

Acknowledgements (p. 7)
List of figures (pp. 9–11)
List of tables (p. 11)
List of abbreviations (p. 12)
Note regarding the catalogue (p. 12)

1. Introduction, aim, and stratigraphy | Jeannette Forsén (pp. 13–32)
2. Protogeometric to Hellenistic pottery | Jeannette Forsén (pp. 33–72)
3. Ceramic finds other than pottery | Jeannette Forsén (pp. 73–78)
4. Miniature vessels | Leslie Hammond (pp. 79–88)
5. Medieval pottery | Camilla MacKay (pp. 89–92)
6. Roof tiles | Philip Sapirstein (pp. 93–112)
7. Glass | Rune Frederiksen (pp. 113–120)
8. Coins | Michael Alram (pp. 121–122)
9. Sculpture | Carol Lawton (pp. 123–124)
10. Miscellaneous stone objects | Jeannette Forsén (pp. 125–126)
11. Animal sacrifice in Arcadia during the Archaic period. The faunal remains from Agios Elias | Emmanuelle Vila (pp. 127–152)
12. Human bones | Anastasia Papathanasiou (pp. 153–160)
13. Conclusions | Jeannette Forsén (pp. 161–164)

Bibliography (pp. 165–175)

Bibliographical information

Jeannette Forsén, ed., Agios Elias of Asea, Arcadia. From early sanctuary to medieval village 1 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen, 4°, 58:1), Stockholm 2021. ISSN: 0586-0539. ISBN: 978-91-7916-066-1. Hard cover, 175 pages.

Reviews

The Journal of Hellenic Studies 142, 429-430 (Anna Magdalena Blomley)