PATRAS - Anc. road to Agyia - 2000

Patras, 14 Kyprou Street (A. Meimaroglou property). M. Petropoulos (then Director, Στ' ΕΠΚΑ, now Director ΛΘ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a Roman farmstead outside and to the north of ancient Patras, one of a series lining the ancient road to Agyia (Fig. 1: site 11).

The workshop area of the complex consisted of four partially covered areas. (Figs 2-3). A large round potter’s kiln was found (3m in diameter), plus a second, smaller and older one of which only the central support survives. A tiled floor was later laid in this area, on which was a small monolithic basin for clay preparation. A well supplied water. A cistern and a drainage channel are related to the older kiln. A storage pithos was found in situ in the northern part of the plot.