ATHENS - 2005

1 Karagiorhi Servias Street. O. Zachariadou, K. Papagiannakis (Γ ΕΠΚΑ) report on excavations at a listed building (Palli) opposite Syntagma square. Eleven graves cut into the bedrock at a depth of ca 3.5m, belong to the extended east cemetery of Athens near the Diochares Gates. These comprise:

- four fourth-century BC pit graves containing unguentaria, plus a fifth of the end of the fifth century containing a bronze mirror, alabastron, pyxis, eight lekythoi and a skyphos;

- three robbed cist graves;

- a damaged sandstone urn with its marble top;

- a damaged enchytrismos in a hydria

- a partially preserved tile grave

A pyre cut into the earth was surrounded by traces of burning, fragments of burnt wood, bones and white-ground lekythos sherds. Geometric sherds were collected from the deepest fills.