AIGION - 2001

Aigion. E.-I. Kolia (Στ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports that excavation by the water company for a new drainage network revealed antiquities at a number of locations.

A layer containing large quantities of Roman pottery extends over the Balama property on Agiou Andreou and Messinezi Streets, and the corner of Agious Andreou and Michalakopoulou Streets.

On Michalakopoulou Street, a brick and plaster wall and a stone wall lay on the south and north sides of the trench at the junction with the coast road.

Outside numbers 2, 12 and 14 Dodekaneson Street were stretches of east-west walls roughly made with unworked stones. Outside number 8 were three parallel east-west walls 3m apart. West of the second wall was an area of burning with shell and animal bone.

A red plaster floor lay beneath a layer of tile in front of the entrance to the Church of the Isodia on Polychroniadou Street.

In front of 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 34 Isodion Street were stretches of roughly made east-west walls of unworked stones. In front of 14-16 was a well-constructed wall including worked blocks. At the junction with Athanasiou Diakou Street, 22m away, was a further east-west wall of unworked stones with next to it a column capital in secondary use. At the entrance to number 38 was part of a pebble and plaster floor by a badly damaged section of wall.

In the square of the Church of the Isodia was an east-west wall of unworked stones and part of a plaster-lined cistern.

At the junction of Kolokotroni and Isodion Streets was a small section of a Roman water channel and a wall, both running east-west. Further sections of brick walling were noted.

At 17 Omirou Street and the junction of Omirou Street and Psila Alonia Square was a layer of coarse pottery including a complete black-glaze lamp.

At 3 Chrysanthemon Street was part of a Roman cistern.

Finally, water company works at Kouloura revealed a deposit of pottery, tile and pithos sherds, plus a conical loomweight.