







Hagios Mamas Excavation 1928
Excavation: Research excavation
Systematic tests in the form of shafts at regular vertical intervals and trenches dug along the sides of the mound at H. Mamas down to virgin soil revealed the following stratification: (a) A Neolithic stratum, about one metre thick, yielding sherds closely resembling 'Thessalian' wares (white on black-polished, rippled, beaded and burnished), and a few painted ones resembling some classes of 'Thessalian A and B.' (b) A stratum about 7 metres thick containing Early Helladic ware, as at Molyv6pyrgo, and apparently corresponding chronologically to the latter half of ' Period A ' at Vardar6ftsa. In it were found a potter's kiln, several complete vases, fragments of anthropomorphic vases, a stone axe, a necklace of teeth and carved bone beads, and figurines of Trojan type. (c) This stratum corresponded to 'Period B ' at Vardar6ftsa, and yielded a few fragments of incised ware, a fair amount of Minyan, as at Molyv6pyrgo, and much coarse indeterminate ware. (d) A stratum whose finds agreed closely with those of 'Period C' at Vardar6ftsa, with the wish-bone-handle wares becoming common, and in the upper levels large quantities of Mycenaean sherds (L. H, III. b). At the end of this period the site was abandoned.
Active in /04/1928.
Heurtley, Mr Walter Abel
Benton, Dr Sylvia
Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
[Journal] The Annual of the British School at Athens, no. 29 (1927/1928).