PANORMOS - 2001

Panormos Lake (Drandaki property). I. Gavrilaki (ΚΕ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of one Hellenistic and one Late Roman building. The Hellenistic building had a variety of large and small rooms, with floors of beaten earth and occasional paving. Fragments of stone, wood, plaster and brick in the destruction deposit indicate an upper floor. Most of the pottery was coarseware (cooking pots, lekanes, lopades) but black-glaze skyphoi, a small phiale and some miniature pots were also found. One room contained pyramidal loomweights and the wooden remains of at least three looms. Another had 20 storage vessels, some containing large quantities of pulses and pieces of lead. A third room contained a potter’s wheel. Many figurines were recovered. The Late Roman building consists of an almost square room and a 2m-long stretch of corridor. Its character is unknown, but it had plaster-lined pits and is dated by pottery and coins to the fourth-fifth centuries AD.