NAUPLION HARBOUR - 2002

Nauplion harbour. Ch. Piteros (Δ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a Roman inscription among material used for the modern eastern breakwater. The text, ΟΡΟΣ ΑΓΡΟΥ/ΦΑΣΚΑΔΟΝ/ΤΟΥ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΣΕΒΑ/ΣΤΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ/ΤΟΡΟΣ Μ. ΑΥΡΗΛΙ/ΟΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΥ, gives the first indication that Marcus Aurelius Antoninus possessed an estate in the Argolid (where he bred a species of duck, presumably at a water-side location). Since the inscription is not in situ the location of the estate remains unknown, but it is noted that when the breakwater was built in 1970, construction sand was regularly extracted from the Charadros, Inachos, Kleisoura (Berbatioti) and Amarianos rivers.