VOULA - 2006

Voula, Mystra Street and Varis-Koropiou Avenue (Sklavenitis property). Triantafyllia Kattoula (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of two roads (the continuation of those previously excavated on the Moutzouvi and Manola properties (fig. 1). A 35m-long stretch of the first, east-west road was revealed, while second ran north-northeast – south-southwest with a retaining wall preserved on its east side. Between the roads lay adomestic building with at least five rooms (oriented north-south) founded on bedrock. To the south lay a sanctuary: an 0.4m square altar or table (0.5m high), built of vertical stone slabs round a soil and rubble fill, lay in the centre of an open area. On the east and south sides of the altar, two walls define a 2 x 2m room, while an apsidal wall to the west postdates the altar.

Finds from the open area include coarseware and a little fourth- and third-century BC fine and black-glaze pottery, stone and terracotta loom weights and spindle whorls, a terracotta animal figurine and a marble human leg. Similar household shrines, adjacent to roads, were common in the deme of Halai Aixonidae.