PATRAS - 2009

Patras, 28 Pantanassis Street (property of the Demos Patreon). The 6th EBA reports the completion of excavation on a plot. A secular building or residential complex was partially revealed (a rectangular room with a doorway and tiled roof, plus a small part of a second room) close to the site of earlier building remains. Pottery, coins and architectural style combined to indicate its use from Early Christian to Early Byzantine times (fifth to sixth centuries AD). Finds include a near-complete Early Christian terracotta bread stamp, a large quantity of fifth- to sixth-century bronze coins (94, mainly minimi but also two semifollis coins and a pentanummium of the sixth century), a marble table support, a bronze fish-hook and a long lead net weight.