PATRAS - Meilichos river - 2000

Patras, 14 Pineiou and Kladeou Streets (K. Tsoulou property). M. Petropoulos (then Director, Στ' ΕΠΚΑ, now Director ΛΘ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of part of an Early Roman farmstead devoted to oil and wine production (Fig. 1: site 12; Figs 2-3).

Presses and vats for wine were found, as well as fixed and portable oil separators, pottery kilns for the production of storage and transport vessels, and a grain press. The complex had two construction phases at the beginning and end of the first century AD. The farmstead lay beside the north bank of the Meilichos river (ancient Kallinaos). On the south bank was a large retaining wall for flood control (similar constructions are found on both banks of the river by the Roman bridge).