ANCIENT SIKYON - 2006

Ancient Sikyon, Vasiliko, football stadium (property of S. Thanopoulou). A.-M. Anagnostopoulou (ΛΖ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a quarry with some 15 quarry pits ranging in depth from 0.15-2.06m. The area was subsequently used for settlement: at least six rooms were identified, defined by eight roughly made walls of fieldstones and worked blocks in secondary use. A flight of five rock-cut steps, a built rectangular cistern subsequently used for refuse, a further rock-cut cistern lined with cement, a well, and a rock-cut channel were also found. Finds comprise plain domestic pottery, Hellenistic and Roman black glaze pottery, 11 bronze coins, loomweights and terracotta lamps.