MARATHON - Neos Voutzas - 2002

Informations Générales

Numéro de la notice

2239

Année de l'opération

2002

Chronologie

Antiquité - Romaine

Période byzantine - Protobyzantine

Mots-clés

Ferme - Sépulture - Production/extraction

Nature de l'opération

Fouille - Sauvetage

Institution(s)

Β' Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων (IIe éphorie des antiquités préhistoriques et classiques)

Localisation

Toponyme
Marathon, Marathonas

Αρχαιολογικό Κτηματολόγιο

Sites archéologiques :
Μαραθώνας, Αττική
Sites historiques :
Μαραθώνας, Αττική

Notices et opérations liées

2002

Description

Neos Voutzas, Marathonos Street. †M. Oikonomakou (Β’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the excavation of part of a large Roman-Late Roman farm complex at the junction with the road to Neos Voutzas (Figs 1,2). The structure (30 x 50m) was founded in bedrock: it was destroyed by fire, after which the roof collapsed. A room at the southwest contained an olive press next to a round stone base of a large trachyte mill stone, and an unfluted column which supported the mill inside the base. In the remaining rooms were pithoi and amphorae, some smaller vessels (mostly red-slip plates, cups, oinochoes and phialae), also chytres, terracotta beehives and mortars, transport amphorae, and loomweights. Almost all the rooms had floors preserved. In a room at the north side of the structure were three enchytrismoi in large vessels (beehives and amphorae). Along the length of the north side was a passageway cut into the rock. The finds date from the third-sixth century AD.

Auteur de la notice

Robert PITT

Références bibliographiques

AD 56-59 (2001-2004) Chr., 378-379.