Soustiani, Corinth - Tripoli - Kalamata Highway, Lektro - Sparta section - 2014

Soustiani, Corinth - Tripoli - Kalamata Highway, Lektro - Sparta section. Evangelia Pantou, Evangelia P. Eleutheriou and Maria Florou (5η EBA) report on discoveries made during the construction of the new motorway.
At this site (Χ.Θ. 41+160), a bath complex was discovered, dated to the Late Roman / Early Byzantine period.
Early excavations in the area had revealed pipes, bronze coins, and pottery sherds. A further excavation revealed the complex, with the hot baths and nymphaeum in good condition. The bathroom was luxuriously decorated with a mosaic floor, and possibly frescoes. A network of pipes brought water from the river. 
The entrance to the complex was from the east, into the nymphaeum. A rectangular floorpan was found (10m x 10m), bounded by a low wall made of mudbrick. To the N, there was a water tank (9.40 x 1.70 x 0.46m). To the SE, there was another room, oriented EW with dimensions 16 x 14m, extending to the N; and to the W, the interior of the bath complex extended in a NE-SW orientation. Room 4 was identified as a former courtyard converted into an interior space, while Room 3 is thought to be an apodyterium, with three brick benches. 
To the W of Room 3 was Room 1 (6.30 x 8.93m), the most ornately decorated room. The floor was made of large bricks, and to the NE part of the room a free standing bath (1.85 x 2.44m). To the SW of the bath, a built arched niche (height 1.45m) made of brick, having on it traces of light green and dark blue plaster. The S most room was covered entirely by mosaic (4.45 x 4.43m), dated to the second half of the third century AD.
S of Room 1 was Room 15, a large pool (4.47 x 6.24m), with a brick floor and small staircase. To the far end were the remains of a drainage system. A thick layer of hydraulic mortar covered the inner walls. NW of Room 1 was Room 2, probably the sudatorium, and square in plan (5 x 5m). To the S of this area were the tepidarium and caldarium (Room 10), accessed from the NE, and to the S was Room 10 (internal dimensions 2.30 x 1.36m), the praefurnium. Room 09 was identified as a caldarium, due to the presence of hypocausts. 
In addition to hypocausts, ceramic pipes covered with tegulae mammatae were used to heat the baths, of which many fragments were found during the excavation. Many fragments of green and white glass were also found.