PIRAEUS - 60 Georgiou Theotoki and 43 Byronos Streets - 2006

Piraeus, 60 Georgiou Theotoki and 43 Byronos Streets (property of I. Fassaki). Kornelia Axioti (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a quarry from which two courses of blocks (each 0.6m high) had been extracted (fig. 1). The extraction channels visible at the base of the quarry indicate an extraction area of 13 x 7 blocks, each of which measured 1.3 – 1.5 × 0.9 – 1m and 2.3 × 0.9 – 1m. A 14m-long rubble wall, reinforced with large vertical blocks at 0.5 - 0.6m intervals, ran along the quarry (fig. 1). This may be a retaining wall built to create an area for construction in an otherwise steeply-sloping quarry. The wall contained fourth-century BC black-glazed and plain pottery.