Mazarakia. The ΛΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ reports on rescue excavation for the construction of the road linking the Egnatia Odos with the national road from Igoumenitsa to Preveza, between the Karteri and Mesovounio junctions. Ca. 200 graves in a Roman cemetery (of the first-second centuries AD) were excavated, noting impressive funerary monuments, one of which preserved in situ an inscribed grave stele. The majority of burials contained numerous ceramic, glass, bone and metal...

Kyra Panagia Karvounariou, Paramythia. The ΛΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ reports the excavation of part of an extensive unfortified Hellenistic settlement in the course of roadworks. The settlement, which was first discovered in the 1990s, includes private houses with baths and an impressively built public...

Paramythia. The ΛΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ reviews research in the Paramythia valley, where a number of Roman rural residences have been discovered (the valley was used exclusively for burials in later Classical and Hellenistic times). (Fig. 1) At Gephyrakia, a workshop was discovered surrounded by a dense network of water channels: the site produced coins of the Epirote koinon dating around 167BC. Excavation at Mavromantila in 2005 revealed a large quantity of pottery of the 12th to seventh centuries...

Riziani Parapotamou. The ΛΒ’ΕΠΚΑ reports the excavation of a funerary peribolos in use from the fourth to the second century BC, which contained five cist tombs and two funerary receptacles. Three children and four adults could be recognised, all accompanied by rich grave...

Skala Aetou, Filiates. The ΛΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ reports the discovery of a settlement occupied continuously from the ninth at least until the end of the fourth century BC. During the oldest settlement phase, oval buildings were erected on the slope of the hill, very close together and on a common orientation. Before the fourth century, the pottery consisted of local handmade wares, with some fifth-century imports. A large quantity of storage vessels reflects the community’s reliance on...

Gitana. The ΛΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ reports on rescue excavation in the exceptionally rich cemetery of Gitana, beside the modern Kalama dam. Noteworthy among the tombs discovered is a cist grave with a bench, in use from the third to the first centuries BC. It contained seven cremation burials either in ceramic vessels or stone containers, along with personal items such as vases, figurines and...

Neochori. The ΛΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ reports the discovery, in rescue excavation for the construction of the Neochori junction of the Egnatia Odos, of an extensive destruction layer containing pottery of the sixth century BC to the Hellenistic period. In the same area was a potter’s kiln and part of a rich Roman cemetery of pit and stone cist...

Mastilitsa. The ΛΒ’ ΕΠΚΑ reports the discovery of a cult building on the hill where settlement began in the Archaic period. The building, which has a sekos and adyton of approximately equal size, and a colonnade, dates to the late seventh or sixth century. It is the oldest cult building yet found in...