VOULA Pegadakia - 2011

Voula, Pegadakia, Thessalonikis and Larissis (O.T. 287, property of A. Fronimou – A. Mari). Mairi Giamalidi (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of Classical burials. The site lies in the area of the Halai Aixonidai cemetery, where pyres, sarcophagi, larnakes, inurned cremations and tile graves have been previously discovered and been dated to the end of the 5^th to the early 4^th c. B.C. (ΑDelt 1984, 34). 10 pyres and 1 monolithic poros sarcophagus were found in this property (Figs. 1, 2). All the pyres were cut in the soft, limestone bedrock. Only two of them contained burial offerings (one lekythos each). Nevertheless, a pit for burials offerings was found, which contained numerous miniature vessels (kyathoi, phialae, plates, cups, skyphoi, lopades and incense burners). The finds date to the last quarter of the 5^th c. B.C. In addition, burned burial offerings of similar type finds were also located near pyres 7 and 8. The monolithic sarcophagus had been looted and contained no finds. The excavator notes that this property is the furthest limit of the cemetery of Halai Aixonidai.