ACHARNES - Monomati - 2002
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
2305
Année de l'opération
2002
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Bains - Ferme - Maison - Sépulture - Four - Inscription - Lampe - Monnaie - Sculpture - Habitat - Nécropole - Production/extraction
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Acharnes, Acharnae, Menidi
Acharnes, Acharnae, Menidi
Notices et opérations liées
20022002 (1)
Description
Monomati, Ortansias and Paschalias Street. M. Platonos (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a large and rich Roman farmhouse (120 x 60m) with a central open courtyard, developed in successive building phases from the Early to Late Roman periods (Figs 1,2). The estate had its own pottery workshop with a kiln, storage areas, a honey production installation, and baths with hypocausts and warm and cold rooms at the southeast.
The complex was destroyed in the fourth century AD and the area used as a Late Roman-Early Christian cemetery with burials in pots and pit graves. One grave contained a marble inscription: παιδὶ ἡρῶι.
Finds from the house include domestic pottery, lamps, a marble weight, part of a terracotta relief plaque with the head of the god Hermes (Fig. 3), Roman and Byzantine bronze coins (Fig. 4), and an inscription on a headless Herm stele of the first–second century AD (Fig. 5). This inscription is from the ancient deme of Pergasidai and mentions one of its citizens and some hydraulic works (οὐδὲν ὀφειλομένου δὲ τῆς περιάκτου). Another inscription among the building material of the house was a horos of the fourth century (Fig. 6).
Within the peribolos wall to the northwest of the house was the tomb of a victorious pentathlete with pieces of a column krater of the beginning of the fifth century BC (Fig. 7).
Auteur de la notice
Robert PITT
Références bibliographiques
AD 56-59 (2001-2004) Chr., 411-414.
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Date de création
2011-07-01 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-09 13:58:24
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Monomati, Ortansias and Paschalias Street: excavation plan.
Fig. 2/ Monomati, Ortansias and Paschalias Street: general view of the excavation.
Fig. 3/ Monomati, Ortansias and Paschalias Street: terracotta relief plaque with the head of Hermes.
Fig. 4/ Monomati, Ortansias and Paschalias Street: Roman bronze coin.
Fig. 5/ Monomati, Ortansias and Paschalias Street: Early Roman inscribed Herm stele of the deme of Pergasidai, in secondary use in the farmhouse wall.
Fig. 6/ Monomati, Ortansias and Paschalias Street: fourth-century BC horos in secondary use in the house wall.
Fig. 7/ Monomati, Ortansias and Paschalias Street: red-figure krater from the cemetery outside the northwest corner of the farmhouse.