PIRAEUS - 15b Neosoikon Street - 2006

Piraeus, 15b Neosoikon Street (property of A. Nikolaou and Sons Co.). Kornelia Axioti (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a quarry face, 2.5m long and 0.5m high, perpendicular to Neosoikon Street. Lines of chisel cuts marked the extraction channels. Walls within the quarry area attest to its subsequent use for a house or workshop. A complex of rock-cut water channels ran into two shafts. Both shafts held deposits with large quantities of fourth-century BC black-glazed and plain pottery (lamps, phialae, saltcellars, plates, skyphoi and kantharoi), loom weights and large quantities of murex shells.