- Karaiika
Karaiika Toll Station. Vasileios Argyropoulos (ΣΤ’ ΕPKA) reports on the excavation undertaken due to the construction of the new motorway. The survey was focused between kilometric positions 20+331 and 20+850., and it revealed ancient building, workshop and burial remains. These constructions were possibly part of an ancient settlement, unknown before, situated near ancient Dymi and on the way to Ilia. Three buildings were revealed during the excavation process, dated during the...
Karaiika, Motorway of Corinth-Patras-Pyrgos-Tsakona, Kilometric position 20+950. Vasileios Argyropoulos reports on the continuation and the termination of a three-year long excavation, which took place where the toll station of Kato Ahaia would be built. The excavation expanded up to 800 sq. meters, and it revealed an ancient cemetery, dated in the fourth century BC.
Of the 20 graves revealed, the 15 were cist graves, two were jar-burials, and three were cremations. They were...
Karaïika, Corinth – Patras – Pyrgos – Tsakona motorway.. Vasileos Argyropoulos (ΣΤ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on continuing excavations at the Barbarosa site (to be a motorway service station on the Olympia Road) of a large section of a cemetery, mainly of graves carved in the soft earth, containing either inhumations or cremations and burial pithoi. The burials date to the late Classical period. [Entry by E....
Karaiika, Vasileios Argyropoulos (ΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a destruction layer (8.0x2.4 m.) containing orange and red Laconian tiles and unpainted pottery. Also found were building materials dated to the Late Classical to Early Hellenistic periods, with a square construction (1.25x1.10 m.) of tile and pithoi fragments to the south-east of the destruction layer. A few meters to the south was part of a clay pipe made of tiles, along with a poorly preserved well to the west....
Karaiika. Vasileios Argyropoulos (ΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a grave dated to the Classical period, sunk into the soft bedrock and covered with a large schist slab. It contained an adult male burial in the extended position. The head had been adorned with a gold plated wreath. Other grave goods included two pelikes (one Red-figure and the other black-glazed) (Fig. 1), a kylix (Fig. 2), a handless skyphidion, an iron strigil, a gold earring and a silver coin. Based on the...