Roman Agora, Tower of the Winds - 2007

Roman Agora, Tower of the Winds. Nikos Tsoniotis (Α’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on new discoveries regarding the foundations of the tower. Specifically, the foundations consist of a marble euthynteria and two courses of aktite stone blocks. The height of both courses is 0.70 m. The lower course had been set directly on the bedrock.

Additional discoveries include two terracotta pipes with a SE-NW direction (Fig. 1). One of the two pipes was of piriform shape. Finally, a section of the foundations of the Agoranomeion was revealed. The foundations run to the south of and parallel with the aforementioned pipes. They consist of poros blocks. A poros drain, with a SE-NW orientation, runs under the building. The drain is covered by conglomerate stone slabs.