- Athinaion, Alika
Junction of Athinaio, Agios Panteleimonas site, Asea valley. Leonidas Souchleris (ΛΘ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the grain depository pit found in the junction of the New and the Old National Motorway in Asea.
The walls of this pit were brickwork, lined with hydraulic mortar, which led the archaeologists to believe that it was used to store both food and drink. Its opening was sealed with two large circular schist stone slabs. Judging by the construction methods, it dared to late...
Athinaion Veleminas. Leonidas Souchleris (ΛΘ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on work undertaken on the outer wall of the fortified Hellenistic settlement of Athinaion. The outer wall follows the edge of the upper plateaux of the hill and was built with large to medium sized stone blocks. It included 33 semi-rounded and rounded towers and is estimated to date to the 4th c. BC. The site was also used during the post-Byzantine period. [Entry created by V....