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Makri. D. Athanasoulis (25th EBA) reports the discovery during motorway construction of a cemetery containing 66 funerary pyres and 10 graves of the eighth and ninth centuries AD. Burial offerings comprised handmade pots and polychrome beads. The offering types, and the co-existence of cremation pyres with Christian graves indicates that the cemetery belongs to a period when the Christianisation of Slavic populations had already...
Nauplion, Basileos Konstantinou Street. The 25th EBA report the discovery, outside the lawcourt, of part of the foundation of the Venetian fortification outworks plus sections of the network of storm drains. Finds date to the second period of Venetian rule...
Asea. D. Athanasoulis (25th EBA) reports the discovery during motorway construction of a Slavic cemetery containing 51 funerary pyres dating to the early seventh century...
Plataniti. The 25th EBA reports on excavation around the 12th-century cruciform church of the Metamorphosis of the Saviour (fig. 1). The exterior elevations of the building were revealed, plus a walled-up entrance on the north side and the foundation of a cist tomb to the south which indicates that the church had a funerary function. Parts of an extensive cemetery around the church were excavated, dating from the late 13th to the early 15th...
Tegea, Palaia Episkopi. A.-V. Karapanagiotou (ΛΘ' ΕΠΚΑ), D. Athanasoulis (25th EBA) and K. Ødegård (Norwegian Institute at Athens) report on the third campaign of excavation in 2010. The most recent documented feature was a flood channel which ran south to north across the site: flooding had in the past seriously disturbed the stratigraphy. The flood layer deepened towards the north of the excavation area, and the bottom had not been reached at a depth of 1m. The stream fill...
Argos. The 25th EBA presents a review of Late Antique and Byzantine finds from rescue excavations in 2000-2010. On Papanikoli Street (property of K. Beleri) a bath complex was found between the Roman agora and the Late Roman insula in the south of the city. Part of the caldarium was found. The floor of the alveus was paved in marble, and the bench round the bath was marble-clad (above this was mosaic decoration in green, black and turquoise). The hypocaust and the water su0pply system were...
Nauplion. The 25th EBA presents a review of Late Antique and Byzantine finds from rescue excavations in 2000-2010. Two Ottoman houses were discovered. Only the basements and foundations survive of the first, on the property of D. and I. Dioili (Kapodistriou and Evthymiopoulou Streets, Ο.Τ. 187Β). The second (residence of Κ. Κanellopoulou, Ethnikis Antistasis and Zygomala Streets, Ο.Τ. 192Β) is near the Sagredou gate leading to Acronauplia. It is also near a house identified with that...
Anc. Corinth. The 25th EBA report the discovery of two Early Byzantine cemeteries, one on the lower slopes of Acrocorinth, south of the Hadjimoustapha fountain and the other at Agai Anna, the entrance to the modern village, 90m southeast of the Quadratus Basilica (fig. 1). P. Meleti (25th EBA) presents a study of the Agia Anna cemetery, where a group of 40 graves was excavated in 2004 and a further 168 in 2009. All but 23 were oriented west-east (the exceptions being north-south), and most...
Tegea, Palaia Episkopi. A.-V. Karapanagiotou (ΛΘ' ΕΠΚΑ), D. Athanasoulis (25th EBA) and K. Ødegård (Norwegian Institute at Athens) report on the first season of collaborative excavation in 2009. West of the ancient theatre and the Byzantine church of Episkopi, the paving of the ancient agora was revealed in a succession of tile-packed surfaces of the Byzantine period, the latest dating to the 12th century AD. Slag from a Byzantine metalworker’s shop was also found. To the north were...
Leondari. D. Athanasoulis (Director, 25th EBA) reports the discovery of fragments of LByz wall-painting and sherds at the Med Kastro, during excavation conducted as part of cleaning operations after the forest fires of summer 2008 had destroyed dense vegetation around the monument. The finds relate to the period, during the 15th Ct, when the Kastro was the seat of Thomas Palaiologos, brother of Constantine, the last Byz...
Kyllini Harbour Project. J. Pakkanen (Finnish Institute), K. Preka-Alexandri (Director emerita, EMA) and D. Athanasoulis (formerly 6th EBA, now Director, 25th EBA) report on a 2nd season of survey of the underwater remains of an anc. naval base and Fr harbour. The harbour had an important geostrategic location and a tactical role in warfare and trade in W Greece from Cl antiquity to Med times, being the principal harbour of anc. Elis. The existence of Gr harbour structures below those of the Fr...
Leondari. D. Athanasoulis (Director, 25th EBA) reports on excavation conducted on the medieval kastro after the fires of summer 2007 cleared vegetation. Investigation focused on the Byzantine churches of Ag. Basileios and Ag. Kyriaki and an anonymous church, and the approach road and gate in the upper defensive circuit. On the summit, in the internal circuit where important medieval structures (such as the large cistern) were concentrated, a 3m-wide gate was revealed, with a pavement and steps...
Argos, Bousoulopoulou St (O.T. Γ 412 property of Th. Papathanasiou) G. Tsekes (25th EBA) reports on the conclusion of this excavation begun in 2005. A mosaic fragment with geometric design in white, black and red tesserae was found in a well in the east section of the excavation. A stone built tomb (Depth 1.95m, 2.81 x 1.20m) with a ceramic tile floor was found south of the wall that runs east-west, it was empty....
Argos, Bousoulopoulou Street (O.T. Γ 412, property of Th. Papathanasiou). G. Tsekes (25th EBA) reports on the conclusion of an excavation begun in 2005. A fragment of a mosaic with a geometric design in white, black and red tesserae was found in a well in the east section of the excavation. An empty stone-built tomb (2.81 x 1.2m, 1.95m deep) with a terracotta tiled floor was found south of an east-west wall....
Argos, Paschalinopoulou Street (O.T. 69, property of G. and K. Giannikaki). A. Vasileiou (25th EBA) reports the discovery of two early modern wine presses and collection tanks, some architectural remains, a well and burials. The eastern of the wine presses is rectangular (4.25 x 3.30m), built of stone and lined with hydraulic mortar: a spout in the southern wall leads to a collecting tank of similar construction (with hydraulic mortar inside and out). To the east of this press was a...
Ancient Corinth (property of I. Kriempardi). M. Athanasoula and E. Manolessou (25th EBA) report the discovery of an early Byzantine (sixth- to seventh-century AD) cemetery of 40 rock-cut cist graves. Almost all were oriented east-west, apart from four arranged north-south. Two had a lining of stone or terracotta slabs along the base of their walls. Tomb floors were paved in terracotta, with a headrest on the western side. Only a few capping stones were found. Most graves were looted, but the...
Ancient Corinth (property of A. Tsetsoni). M. Athanasoula and E. Manolessou (25th EBA) report the discovery of a tower-like structure (3.3 x 4m, preserved to a height of 2.3m) which formed part of the medieval fortification of the lower city. Three limestone blocks from the superstructure were preserved in the southeast corner, with the upper surface covered with thick gray mortar. Sherds, mainly of amphorae, date to the 10th - 13th centuries AD....
Ancient Corinth (property of S. and M. Christou). P. Kasimi (ΛΖ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of 23 (mostly looted) tile and rock-cut graves from a cemetery on the north slope of Acrocorinth, between the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore and the Hadjimustapha fountain. The very few finds include two Byzantine (seventh- to eighth-century AD) vessels in tomb 14, and two fourth-century BC Corinthian coins. Beneath the graves lay the remains of Classical structures subsequently published by...