VARI - ASYRMATOS - 2006

Vari, Asyrmatos (properties of Kaire AP, Kourti, Christophilopoulou, and P. Belonia).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a 37.1m-long stretch of road (2.05-2.27m wide), running northwest-southeast on the Kaire property, paved with small stones and with retaining walls on both sides. Finds from the road and the walls comprise late Archaic and early Classical pottery, obsidian blades and two bronze coins. A few poorly preserved and unidentifiable remains were located northeast of the retaining wall. A cistern, 1.45m in diameter, was sunk into the bedrock 7.5m north of the road, its mouth (internally 1.1m and externally 2.1m in diameter) was formed of medium-size stones.

Part of a second, east-west road was excavated on the Kourti property, running east-west with retaining walls on both sides. Finds include a lead clamp, a lump of copper, a broken spindle whorl, a piece of lead and two obsidian blades.

On the Christophilopoulou plot, a square space (19 x 27m) delimited by rubble walls running north-south and east-west, is identified by the excavator as a gathering space or the agora of the deme of Anagyrous. A little pottery dates the structure to the beginning of the fifth century BC.

A further stretch of road, 2.35-2.55m wide, was found on the Belonia property. Running northwest-southeast, it had retaining walls on both sides.