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  • Nine - Late Geometric and Orientalising Pottery from Sicilian Naxos in Its Context

  • Edited by Stefanos Gimatzidis, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna
  • Book:
    Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World
    Published online:
    30 May 2024
    Print publication:
    06 June 2024, pp 285-317

  • Summary

    This paper treats the contexts of eighteen Late Geometric and Subgeometric pottery fragments from Naxos, Sicily, analysed by Neutron Activiation Analysis. The results do not allow the definition of any local production of pottery of Euboean type at Naxos but provide new insights into the exchange of Geometric ceramic wares of local origin in southern Italy and Sicily. Most recent excavations elucidate the organisation of the earliest settlement. An almost-orthogonal intersection between two streets outlines a chequered urban layout already around 700 BCE. The coaeval enclosure with the bothros and hard-packed floor that occupies the south-west corner of the street intersection indicates the cult of some hero or ancestor. The finding of krater fragment Na 16 with the depiction of an anodos further implies the ritual properties of its context of deposition. Finally, the excavation under the hard-packed floor provides a glimpse of even earlier settlement phases associated with Sikel material culture.