MOSCHATO - 2008

Moschato, 14 Patmou and Perivolion Streets (property of Chr. Papanakou). M. Petritaki (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of an ancient road and a 4^th c. B.C. cemetery. The road has retaining walls on both sides and attests to three phase of use. The cemetery NE of the road consists of 6 pyres and one sarcophagus with a female burial. The pyres contained a corroded iron nail and a strigil. The sarcophagus contained a squat lekythos, an alabastron, a bronze mirror, 2 bronze hoops, a small lekanis with its lid, a phialidio, a bronze pin, 2 bone buttons and three bronze nails. It is dated in the first half of the 4^th c. B.C.