GERAKAS - 2007

Athens, Gerakas, Kentro, Skiathou, Kimolou, Anafis and Herakleias Streets (O.T. 263, property of OSK). D. Christodoulou (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of an extensive Roman farmstead (Fig 1). In total 41 walls were excavated which delimit 21 rooms. With the exception of a room paved with stone slabs (most likely a courtyard) and another with a lime-plaster floor, all rooms had earthen floors. The following were found in the rooms: a fragment from a funerary stele with a palmette, a bronze coin, a furnace (pieces of querns had been used for its construction), an intact storage vessel, pieces from a marble perirrhanterion, 2 hearths containing burnt vessels, a terracotta pipe, coins, querns and the head of a female statuette. In addition, three deposits were found in the complex. The area appears to have been in use throughout Roman times until the Early Byzantine period. All pottery excavated from the farmstead comes from plain ware and dates in the Roman period. The pottery excavated from the deposits is primarily fine ware and black-glazed sherds. This may indicate that the farmstead had two phases of use, one in 1^st B.C.-1^st A.D. and the second in the 3^rd-6^th c. A.D.