- Source: Agios Vasileios, Laconia
Agios Vasileios (also spelled Ayios Vasileios or Ayios Vasilios; Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος) is the site of a Mycenaean palace, located near the village of Xerokambi in Laconia, Greece. It was discovered after a Linear B tablet was found accidentally on the slope of a hill, near the Byzantine chapel of Agios Vasileios (St. Basil), in 2008; two more tablet fragments were found in a survey conducted the same year. Excavations, carried out by the Archaeological Society of Athens and directed by archaeologist Adamantia Vasilogamvrou, began in 2009 and have brought to light a palace complex with a large central courtyard with colonnaded porticos along the sides. This palace was first constructed in the 17th-16th BCE, destroyed in the late 15th-early 14th century BCE, rebuilt, and finally destroyed again in the late 14th or early 13th century BCE. Finds include an archive of Linear B tablets, kept in a room adjacent to the colonnade; cult objects such as figurines made of clay and ivory; a collection of twenty bronze swords; and fragments of wall frescoes. The discovery of Agios Vasileios was chosen by the 2013 Shanghai Archaeology Forum as one of its 10 most important archaeological discoveries worldwide.
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- Hieroglif Kreta
- Agios Vasileios, Laconia
- Agios Vasileios
- List of settlements in Laconia
- Agios Vasileios, Rethymno
- Provinces of Greece
- Parnon
- Adamantia Vasilogamvrou
- Gytheio
- Ithaca (island)
- Rethymno (regional unit)
