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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
The mound lies on the south bank of the Haliakmon at the point where the modern road from Macedonia to Thessaly crosses the river by an iron bridge built by the Turks in 1912 (figs. 1 and 2). Except for slight traces of occupation in Byzantine and Turkish times the site seems to have been derelict since the early Bronze Age, its strategic equivalent being at one time the fortress (of uncertain date) that crowns the hill immediately north of the bridge, and, at another, the Byzantine castle above Sérvia that commands the entrance to the Sarardáporo pass and the road to the south. East-west communications past the site cannot have been considerable at any time, since north-eastwards the river, after flowing past the mound, soon enters a rocky and impassable gorge, from which it emerges only at Verria some forty kilometres distant.
page 227 note 2 Unless the river itself was navigable, as Prof. Keramopoullos believes, cp. Πρακτικὰ τῆς’ Aκαδημίας,, 1929, p. 56.
page 227 note 3 Seven pits in all were dug, they are numbered on the plan (fig. 2): A, B, D, E, FC, X, and Z.
page 230 note 1 The skull and a few scattered bones of another skeleton, however, found partly above and partly in the upper half of the pit, belong to stratum III.
In a brief notice like the present it is clearly impossible to describe the burial in detail, but a fair idea will, it is hoped, be obtained from the illustration (fig. 4). Associated objects were: a blade of obsidian found in the hard earth immediately below the skeleton, the fragment of a zoomorphic vase by the right arm, the vases illustrated (pl. xxxix, 2, 3), and other vases immediately above.
page 231 note 1 Wace and Thompson, Prehistoric Thessaly, pp. 13–15.
page 231 note 2 In Thessaly the white slip is more common.
page 232 note 1 Cp. Wace and Thompson, Prehistoric Thessaly, p. 15.
page 232 note 2 Cp. ibid., figs. 44–7.
page 232 note 3 Cp. ibid., p. 14.
page 232 note 4 Cp. Schmidt, Schliemanns Sammlung, nos. 7408–35; Preh. Thess., fig. 27 h.
page 233 note 1 Ibid., p. 17. The few sherds of white-on-black have fine white diagonal lines starting from the rim as in Thessaly and Macedonia.
page 233 note 2 Traces of a supplementary colour can be seen.
page 234 note 1 Cp. Wace and Thompson, Prehistoric Thessaly, fig. 57 a.
page 234 note 2 Cp. ibid., b, e.
page 234 note 3 Perhaps B 3β, but the supplementary colour has perished.
page 234 note 4 Like, except for colour, Thessalian Γ I y (2): cp. ibid., p. 17.
page 236 note 1 The relation of these black-polished wares to the similar (but not identical) black-polished wares which occur in Central Greece, and in Thessaly, apparently during the first Neolithic Period, raises a problem which cannot be discussed here.
page 236 note 2 Excavated 1931 by the British School at Athens.
page 236 note 3 Sherds collected here 1931.
page 237 note 1 i.e., as represented by the B wares and the Γ1, Γ2, respectively.