ZAROUCHLEIKA - 2000

Patras, Zarouchleïka (OEK property ‘Patra XI’). A. Vasilogamvrou (then Στ' ΕΠΚΑ, now Director, Ε' ΕΠΚΑ) reports on continued excavation on the site of new planned workers’ housing (grid rows 1, 2 and 4). (Fig. 1: site 13).

A funerary building (structure A) occupies the northern part of row 4 (cf. ADelt 53 [1998] Chr, 253) and an extensive, multi-roomed structure (B) the southeastern (continuing to the east) (Fig. 2). A bath complex (structure Γ) continued beyond rows 1 and 2 to the north and east, under modern roads (Fig. 3). The portion excavated includes a room with a hypocaust and a bench along the west wall. The abandonment of the bath building is dated to the second half of the second century AD. Together, these three structures indicate the presence of a Roman villa destroyed in the late second century AD and abandoned to the floodwaters of the neighbouring Glaukos river. These remains will be conserved and presented in situ.