KIFISSIA - 2007

Athens, Kifissia, 313 Kifissias Avenue (O.T. 167, property of Trakosaris and Apostolopoulos Co.). A. Hatzidimitriou (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discoveries of Classical houses, a Roman burial and a Late Roman storeroom. The area was inhabited from the first half of the 4^th c. B.C. until the second half of the 4^th c. A.D. The following remains attest to habitation in the Classical period: 2 rock-cut pits, part of a floor and two walls. A Roman female burial was also found: a pit grave containing a bronze mirror, part of a bronze pin and three glass unguentaria (Figs 1,2). The burial dates in the 1^st-2^nd c. A.D. Finally, a Late Roman storeroom was found. Finds from the area include sherds with geometric decoration, plain ware, black- and red-glazed sherds (4^th c. B.C.), pyramidal loom weights, sherds dating in the 2^nd-4^th A.D., 4^th-8^th A.D. and second half of the 12^th A.D., 7 obsidian blades, 20 bronze coins, a coin depicting Emperor Antonian (3^rd A.D.), 2 pieces from a bronze fibula, an earring, the head from a 4^th c. A.D. female statuette ('Head of Matronae', see Agora 1971: 11), a fragment from a terracotta phallus and a piece from an iron agricultural tool.