La céramique helladique du sanctuaire d’Apollon Daphnéphoros à Eretrie (Eubée)

Sylvie Müller Celka, Tobias Krapf & Samuel Verdan Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 135.1 (2011) [2013]: 21-61.

Abstract

In this paper, the authors examine the Bronze Age pottery fortuitously discovered in the Sanctuary of Apollo at Eretria. Some sherds were found in situ at the bottom of a deep test trench and some in secondary position in later Geometric levels. Although badly eroded, this material provides useful additional evidence for our understanding of the prehistoric occupation of Eretria. It demonstrates that the first coastal settlement (succeeding a FN-EH I site on top of the acropolis) dates back to as early as the very beginning of EH II and probably moved east or decreased in size during EH III. It also includes MH II-LH I sherds of the same date and type as previously known pottery from the acropolis, suggesting that the plain was inhabited during this period as well, probably after a gap in the first half of the MH period. Finally some LH II-IIIΒ sherds bring further evidence of a Mycenaean site, already attested by secondary deposits on the acropolis, but are of no help in localizing it.