PARAMYTHIA - 2008

Paramythia. The ΛΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ reviews research in the Paramythia valley, where a number of Roman rural residences have been discovered (the valley was used exclusively for burials in later Classical and Hellenistic times). (Fig. 1) At Gephyrakia, a workshop was discovered surrounded by a dense network of water channels: the site produced coins of the Epirote koinon dating around 167BC.

Excavation at Mavromantila in 2005 revealed a large quantity of pottery of the 12th to seventh centuries BC, which seems to have tumbled from a higher location. This discovery may indicate the existence of a small kome on one of the mountain slopes which surround the valley. (Fig. 2).