MOSCHATO - 2006

Moschato, 4 (7) Kyprou Street (property of I. Kazakou ABEE). Maria Petritaki (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery Late Geometric - Late Roman/Early Christian remains.

In the north part of the plot lay a 19.1m-long section of the road that ran between the Long Walls, 15m from the North Long Wall. Oriented east-west and 4.8 – 5m wide, the road was surfaced with unworked stones.

Five Late Geometric burials were found south road (one child pithos burial, one adult pithos burial, one shaft grave, one small pyre and one pit). An iron knife, an LGIb pyxis lid with concentric cycles, an LGIa skyphos, an LGIb trefoil-mouthed oinochoe, and other sherds were found in the shaft grave, and a jug and a globular aryballos came from the pit. In addition, two Roman child burials were found.

A Late Roman-Early Christian (third- to fourth- and fifth-century AD) workshop was excavated in the SW part of the plot. The long structure, oriented north-south with the entrance at the north. The walls were built of rubble, sherds and lime mortar: one room had a terracotta tiled floor. Further walls were located south of this building.

Floors of the Classical period were excavated in the southwest part of the plot.

Finds from the plot include pottery, glass, and metal artefacts, third- to fifth-century AD coins, prehistoric sherds. Stone artefacts include part of the head of an Archaic herm and a fragment of a funerary stele bearing the inscription: