PATRAS - 2005

Patras. 7 Boukaouri Street. A. Koumousi (6^th EBA) reports the discovery of the inner face of a wall (4.3m high, 7.8m long, 2.4-2.5m wide) on the east side of the castle, strengthened with buttresses between which are two arched window-slits. The wall, which belongs to the same construction phase as the castle, is a continuation of the section previously discovered further south, at 3 and 5 Boukaouri Street. It is built of unworked stones, brick and sections of tile with a thick cement binding, and the window arches are brick. To the west of the wall was a rectangular well (2.1 x 1.7m) with walls of alternating courses of brick and unworked stone, which was investigated only to a depth of 1.8m (but is clearly deeper). Large quantities of Byzantine (12th-century) pottery were recovered, especially glazed open and closed shapes. More recent levels produced four bronze torneselli of Andrea Dandolo (1342-1354).