Asea Toll Station, Motorway between Tripoli and Kalamata, Manari region, Tripoli - 2008

Asea Toll Station, Motorway between Tripoli and Kalamata, Manari region, Tripoli. Leonidas Souchleris (ΛΘ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the excavation in the Manari region, where a farmhouse and two open-air Roman wine-presses were located.

The wine-presses were dated between the third and the fourth century AD. They were of rectangular plan, oriented E-W, and had hydraulic mortar on the insides of their walls. The N one was intact, whilst the S one was partially destroyed (fig. 1):

Those wine-presses were the first to locate in the mainland of Asea, extra muros of the settlement, and they were of the few architectural remains belonging to an open-air wine-process unit in Arcadia.

[Entry created by E. Kourti]