PAIANIA - 2000

Paiania. Pousi Ledi. Two funerary periboloi were located at the junction of two ancient roads (Fig. 1) during work for the Attiki Odos. One peribolos, at the northwest of the crossroads, had a semicircular exedra in the corner; while the other, 60m to the west, was a simple rectangular structure. Inside the large peribolos were the built steps of six bases for funerary monuments. Below these were four marble larnakes and four cremations, with 11 later tile graves around them. A pit contained pottery and remains of burning. The cemetery was in use from the second half of the fifth century BC until the Hellenistic period. From the later period came a hoard of 67 Attic bronze new-style coins. A section of a large funerary naiskos about 3m long, which must have been set in the exedra, carried the inscription ΘΙΛΙΠΠΗ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ. Other finds include a small stele of one Herakleides, part of a small marble base or funerary table with relief figures (Fig. 2), a marble lekythos with a dexiosis relief and part of a loutrophoros. The second peribolos also contained built bases, and four pit and two tile graves dated to the fourth century BC. One of the tile graves contained a female burial with bronze earrings, a metal agricultural tool and two dolls. In the same area, a few metres from the ancient well of Pousi Ledi, within the agricultural road, was a Roman building with marble Corinthian capitals.