NIKOPOLIS - 2010

Nikopolis. The ΛΓ’ ΕΠΚΑ reviews research in the area of one of the city’s three harbours at Vathy. Excavation (e.g. on the Leontitsi and Xera properties), while limited, has revealed Roman and early Christian building remains, hoards of mostly bronze coins, large quantities of pottery and tile, refuse deposits, a variety of metal items, and the remains of a workshop for the production of purple dye, all of which demonstrate the use of the area from the late first century BC until the fifth-sixth century AD. On the Triandi property, excavation revealed a representative sample of the Roman suburban settlement of the period immediately following the foundation of Nikopolis, an area which was then converted into a workshop for the production of purple dye.

At Analipsi, building remains and rectangular cisterns belong to workshops and adjunct rooms of the end of the first century BC to the third century AD.

At Pnevmatikos Pharos-Tarana, excavation revealed parts of two rural agricultural residences or facilities, a cistern, 18 tile graves, two hoards of bronze coins, and a large quantity of portable finds and pottery which date the establishments to the third-fourth century AD.