SALAMINA, Ambelakia. - 2005

Salamina, Ambelakia. E. Venizelou Street (property of E. Koutraki and M. Zougri, O.T. 95). T. Kattoula (ΚΣΤ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a large building complex close to the ancient harbor (on its south side and close to the eastern branch of the city wall), extending to east and west of a main north-south road. The complex was founded on bedrock: many walls contained architectural spolia. The principal east-west wall defining the boundary of the complex had two parallel rows of stones with dressed outer faces and a fill of small stones between them. A destruction level containing tiles and sherds of large storage vessels covered almost the entire plot.

On the southeast side of the plot was a room with a floor of tile fragments in a pattern of concentric circles. To the north of it, an open courtyard contained a well with a marble well-head. Ca 10m north of the well was a 0.9m-square altar, preserved to a height of 0.7m and with traces of burning of the surface. A burnt deposit to the south of it contained sherds mostly of drinking vessels. On the northwest side of the excavated area, near the northern boundary of the complex, was an unusually well-built room, with purple and yellow plaster on the walls. South of the entrance was a limestone column in situ. Immediately to the east of the room was a well sunk into the bedrock.

A large quantity of Late Hellenistic bronze coins was found in the southern part of the plot.