VOULA - 2006

Voula, 142 Spetson Street (O.T. 147, property of B. Kassimati).Yiannos Kouragios and Mary Yiamalidi (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) report the discovery of an enclosure, the continuation of which had previously been excavated on the adjacent plot. Four walls (of rectangular blocks of local stone with rubble infill) delimited an area 9 x 5.2/6m. The enclosure contained pottery, terracotta figurines (birds, a rider, and a seated female figure), and alabastra.

A limestone sarcophagus (2.2 x 1m) and two pyres (one ritual and the other funerary) were found in the area north of the enclosure. Although the sarcophagus had been looted, it contained bones, metal nails, a fragment of a gold-plated rosette and burned black-glazed pottery. The ritual pyre, which lay over the sarcophagus, contained miniature vessels, animal bones and few fragments of metal. The funerary pyre contained bones and an intact, undecorated vessel.