KEPHALLONIA - Pale - 2010

Pale. A. Soteriou (Director, ΛΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on finds from rescue excavations.

On the Kalogeropoulou property, successive levels dating from the late eighth to the second centuries BC revealed a continuous settlement history. A house next to a cobbled street had a second-century mosaic floor with emblemata of exceptional workmanship (fig. 1).

Excavation for road construction revealed stone catapult balls probably left after the siege of Pale by Philip V in 218 BC (a date supported by the pottery recovered, fig. 2).

In 2009, a Roman marble male head was handed to the Ephoreia by G. Monokrousos (fig. 3), along with silver and bronze coins and other small objects found in the region.