RIGANOKAMBOS - 2000

Riganokambos (junction 4−5 of the Patras by-pass). G. Alexopoulou (Στ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a Late Roman farmstead in a semi-mountainous location next to the Diakoniari river (the first to be found in such a location).
The building, entered from the west, had three large rectangular areas with thick walls. The destruction deposit contains, in addition to Laconian roof tiles and iron nails probably from the roof, four bronze coins (a fifth- to sixth-century AD minimus, two badly-worn AES4 and an AES3 of Theodosius II from the mint of Cyzicus, of the VOT/X/MVLT/XX type). Pottery spans the fourth century BC to the fifth century AD. Two earlier construction phases, Roman and Late Classical, are evident.