AGATHONISI Mikro Damaki - 2006

Agathonisi. Mikro Damaki (Damakia). P. Triantaphyllidis (ΚΒ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports on evidence for a cemetery on this hill site SE of Megalo Chorio in the E of the island. An inscribed funerary stele of the LHel period reads: ...]ΗCΕΙC ΧΡΗCΤΗ XAI[ΡΕ]. On the E side of the valley, close to the river, is a strong wall of polygonal masonry dating to the pre-Rom period, with sherds (chiefly plainware) on the E slope.
In the wider area, to the S, at the coastal site of Tsangaris, are ECh building remains (walls, cisterns, wells and remains of floors). The remains of a basilica also of the ECh period are known to the N, at Ag. Ioannis on the lower slopes of Mt Kephala, beneath the mod. church of Ag. Ioannis Prodromos and Ag. Eirene. Visible architectural members include a column, 2 marble column capitals of Corinthian type datable to the 5th and 6thCts AD and 3 joining pieces of a marble inscription reading ΕΡΓΙΑ ΨΙΜΙΟΥ + which is now in the courtyard of the mod. church. S, on the summit of Mt Kephala, are FNeo sherds.