CORFU - City cemetery (Garitsa) - 2000

City Cemetery. G.-K. Augerinou (Η' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the excavation of burials from the city cemetery on three plots in Garitsa.

Alkinoos and Lohagos Michail Vasila Streets (Sourianou property). An Archaic Π-shaped funerary monument of flat stones, open to the west, was found empty (Fig. 1). An Archaic pit burial was also uncovered, plus parts of two parallel Classical walls, probably protecting the monument. In the northwest of the plot, just below the surface, was a Venetian wall (17th century) and a small hoard of eight Venetian coins.

Junction of Chrysostomou Smyrnis Street and Vlahernon 28 (Makri property). Eight Hellenistic burials were located: three simple pits, two tile-covered cists and one tile grave, and two enchytrismoi (in chytres). The orientation of the burials varied. In the northeast of the plot, a long dry-stone structure, built directly upon the natural sandy soil and oriented east-west, is probably associated with the ancient harbour of Alkinoos.

Andrikopoulou property (lane off Kyprou Street). The remains of destroyed Archaic and Classical tombs include tile, pottery, amphorae, pithoi and bones.