ATHENS - 2007

Athens, 7 Monastiriou St. Ch. Stoupa (Γ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation to the east of the road to the Demosion Sema. Ten burials, 2 pedestals, 4 deposit pits, a drain and a well were found (Figs 1,2). The earliest burial is a Classical pyre containing sherds, loom weights and an animal figurine. The remaining burials date in Roman times and consist of tile graves and 1 inurned cremation. Both pedestals are rectangular in shape and date in Roman times (Fig 3). The deposit pits contained Archaic, late Classical and Hellenistic sherds: black-glazed, table ware, lekythoi, lamps and black-figure. Five walls were also excavated which belong to a funerary peribolos. Finally, the well and drain date in the Classical period.