Patras, Old Church of Agios Andreas - 2007

Patras, Old Church of Agios Andreas. Anastasia Koumousi (6th ΕΒΑ) reports on excavations outside of the church of Agios Andreas (Fig. 1), producing architectural remains of different building phases. To the north was a substantial wall made of terracotta bricks and aligned on an E-W axis. It was interrupted to the west by three niches and may be associated with the remains of bath complex which was excavated during the 1970s, to the north-west of the church. To the west of the church were roughly made walls aligned on a N-S axis and dated to the Byzantine period. These were probably also associated with fragments of an opus sectile and marble slab with an engraving of a wild cat found in the same area, along with two complete unfluted columns and a pillar capital (Fig. 2).