THESPROTIA - 2001

Thesprotia. Irrigation works on the borders of the regions of Igoumenitsa, Parapotamos and Filiates. G. Riginos (Η’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of antiquities at a number of locations along the 22.8km-long stretch investigated, principally along the roads from Igoumenitsa to Vrysella, Vrysella to Pigadoulia, and Pigadoulia to Gephyra Neraidas. The following discoveries are reported (usually without dates):

Demos of Maroudi, national road from Igoumenitsa to Ioannina (km 57+000-56+500): scattered sherds.

Demos of Parapotamos, national road from Igoumenitsa to Ioannina (km 53+500): tile and fine sherds. After the Parapotamos junction, on a dirt road by the km marker 52+500, scattered sherds and tile.

Vrysella Filiates (km 49+000): a few sherds.

Skala Filiates (km 43+500): slab cist containing a male inhumation in supine position, with no grave goods. Ca 80m away, on the left of the road from Filiates to Neraida by the crossroads to Aetos: a length of wall with plain and black-glaze pottery, a terracotta loomweight and four spools, an iron knife, a lead clamp, and two probably Roman bronze coins. In a separate autopsy on the property of A. Micha, 300m north of this crossroads, remains of stone wall, tile and sherds were observed, and a terracotta loomweight, a lead sheet and part of the stone weight were collected.

Pigadoulia Filiates (km 42+500), to the right of the road from Pigadoulia to Neraida: section of a paved kalderimi.

Palaiochori Filiates (km 40+500): section of pseudo-isodomic wall, plus tile and sherds (including some black-glaze). In the same area (km 39+500), a construction reported locally to be part of an old stone bridge.