ALKYES - Bostani - 2000

Alkyes, Bostani. A. Vasilogamvrou (then Στ' ΕΠΚΑ, now Director Ε' ΕΠΚΑ) reports on trial excavation at this coastal site 2km north of ancient Dyme.
Two successive east-west walls of limestone blocks ran approximately parallel to the shoreline. A Broneer XV lamp (first century AD) lay above one block and Classical and Late Hellenistic to Early Roman sherds were found within the fill of the upper wall. A destruction deposit covered a compacted clay level inside the wall.
To the southwest, further from the sea, were more sections of wall of different construction and founded at different depths. Next to one north-south wall, a destruction deposit contained tile and sherds of large Late Hellenistic to Early Roman domestic vessels. Immediately beneath the topsoil was a small concentration of tile and large vessel sherds, and elsewhere a destruction level and a part of a pebble pavement.
Occupation coincides with that at Dyme, with which the site is in visual contact. While hard to characterize, activity here may be significant in the light of Strabo’s description (8.7.5) of Dyme as a harbourless city.