Molykreio. N. Kaltsas and A. Moustaka (ASA) report on further excavation of the Sanctuary of Poseidon and Athena, where they investigated the area around the great altar (Fig. 1) with a view to identifying all its constituent parts in advance of future restoration.  A deposit of ash, bone and sherds was found, which produced vessel fragments of the Archaic period, probably of the 7th century BC, which demonstrates that the beginning of ritual activity here goes back at least that...

Molykreio. N. Kaltsas and A. Moustaka (ASA) report on further excavation of the Sanctuary of Poseidon and Athena (Fig. 1). Excavation of the stoa was completed to its foundations and it was confirmed that the E wing, with its 11 surviving bases, was the first to be constructed. There followed construction of the W aisle, its façade bearing 11 wooden columns standing on rectangular stone bases, some of which had a depression to house the column (Fig. 2). The size of the great altar was...

Molykreio. N. Kaltsas and A. Moustaka (ASA) report on continued exploration of the site mentioned in Thucydides (II.86) and Pausanias (IX.31.6) and investigated by W.M. Leake, W.J. Woodhouse and K Romaios before A. Orlandos’ excavations in 1925 and by the current excavators under the auspices of the National Museum and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2006-2015). In 2016 excavation focused on the double stoa, indicating that it was built in 2 periods. The earlier phase was the...

Elliniko, Velvina (anc. Molykreio). N. Kaltsas (formerly National Archaeological Museum) and A. Moustaka (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki) review the results of continuing excavation (since 2006) in a sanctuary in the centre of the ancient city first excavated by Anastasios Orlandos in 1922-5. Orlandos discovered a temple oriented north-south (14.37 x 31.45m) which he dated ca 400 BC, but believed to have been unfinished. Renewed excavation revealed a second, smaller (10.25 x 5m) temple...