SPARTA - 2000

Sparta. 145 Archidamou Street (O.T. 113, P. Theophilakou property). E. Zavvou (Ε' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of Hellenistic constructions and evidence for a potter’s workshop on the west side of the Xenia hill.

Three Hellenistic walls were uncovered, one of which incorporated an Egyptian boat quern of probable Classical date. The existence of a Late Hellenistic workshop in the area is indicated by almost intact pots among the walls, many of which were warped or misfired (Fig. 1). Finds comprise two plates, a black-glazed wheelmade lamp, two black-glazed prochoiskoi, two black-figure oinochoae plus one with badly compressed walls, part of a probably lagynos, a red-slipped bowl, a kantharos, and part of a mould for imbricate moulded bowls. Small finds include a bronze coin of the reign of Eurykles, part of a tile stamped ΔΑΜΟΣΙ[OΣ]/ A[Θ]A[NAΣ] and a first-century BC pyramidal loomweight stamped A and Ρ(?).