KEPHALLONIA - Fiskardo - 2010

Fiskardo, anc. Panormos (property of Ch. Tselendi). A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery at Tigania, within the modern settlement, of a rectangular paved area bounded by a low step (fig. 1). Around it opened rooms and other areas, while on the west side was a well-built paved road. Inscribed bases set in a Π-arrangement on the paved area provide information on office-holders, religious beliefs and personal names. The two last lines of the inscription on one base are particularly revealing as they refer explicitly to the citizens of Panormos and place them in political relationship to the Emperor Hadrian (‘η πόλις Ανδρειανών Πανορμειτών’). In view of the importance of the monuments and the inscriptions, the Roman agora is assumed to be in this area.

In addition to the agora of Panormos, important Roman monuments have been excavated throughout the modern town, notably the vaulted chamber tombs identified as mausolea, parts of a theatre or odeion (still under study), and a small bath complex almost next to the cemetery on the bay of Ag. Andreas.