- Agrinio
Kazantzakis Street and Lountemis Street (O.T. 22, property of the General Hospital), Agrinio. Maria Gatsi (ΛΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on discoveries made at this plot, during the demolition of stone houses and landscaping work.
Twelve test trenches were laid in an area 30 x 30m. In the centre of the plot, a rectangular destruction deposit came to light with dimensions 4.35 x 2.50m. The walls were made of sandstone and preserved to the foundations (Fig. 1). A layer of roof tiles...
Kokkinopilia site, property of Ap. Diotis, Agrinio. Maria Gatsi (ΛΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on discoveries made during the construction of a new building at this site.
A destruction deposit was discovered measuring 7 x 4m, 0.4m thick. Roof tiles and pottery found at the site were dated to the Hellenistic period. At the SE of the property, two tiled-roof tombs were excavated, 1.65 x 0.48m and 1.72 x 0.50m, oriented...
Widening of road near Echinadon Street (O.T. 662–666, in front of Koussi property), Agrinio. Maria Gatsi (ΛΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovered of a tiled roof grave (Fig. 1).
The grave measured 2 x 0.5m, and was found at a depth of 0.50m. Skeletal remains were found within the grave (Fig. 2), with five vessels dating to the second half of the fourth century BC: a red painted lekythos of the ‘Agrinio Group’, a black painted lekythos, a skyphos, and sherds of the neck...
Agrinion, Genova. M. Stavropoulou-Gatsi (Director emerita, ΛΣτ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation at two sites. On Patriarchou Kallinikou B’ Street (property of D. Kaklopoulou), a potter’s kiln and two buildings were discovered during excavation for the construction of a house. The kiln is an oval structure (4.5m long), preserving the stoking tunnel and furnace chamber: the chamber walls were of burnt reddish clay, lined on the interior face with well-fired grey clay. Two of the...
Agios Ioannis Riganas (private property of E. Thomopoulou), Agrinio. Maria Gatsi (ΛΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the excavation of an extensive cemetery of the Byzantine period. The ceramics indicate that there were at least two periods of use at this...
Agrinion, Leivadakia (property of D. Katsakiori). M. Stavropoulou-Gatsi (then Director, ΛΣτ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a building on a property within the archaeological zone, southeast of the national road from Antirrion to Ioannina. Beneath a destruction level containing tile were five walls of fieldstones, three of which connect to define two rooms. Finds consist largely of tile, a large number of pithos fragments, four loomweights and a very little pottery including black...
Agrinion. M. Stavropoulou-Gatsi (then Στ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation for the construction of the national road from Agrinion to Amphilochia. At Agiovasiliotika (OΣE property), the site of the main road junction for Agrinion, excavation in 2000 revealed a thick destruction layer with Laconian tiles and undressed stones. In 2002, a round potter’s kiln was found, with walls built of tile fragments: the workshop complex extended beyond the boundaries of the plot. Six rooms or spaces...
Agrinion, Genova (Megalou Dendrou and Roumelis Streets). M. Stavopoulou-Gatsi (then Στ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of antiquities in two locations. 14 Megalou Dendrou Street: part of a workshop was discovered, comprising an oval structure with walls of baked clay, plus masses of clay and strong traces of burning. 17 Roumelis Street: two cist tombs were found. Tomb I, of schist slabs with two Laconian rooftiles set at the base, contained a pot and an iron strigil. Tomb II was...
Agrinion. Proodos Street (Kolovou-Mariphlogou property). M. Stavropoulou-Gatsi (then Στ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of walls belonging to a probable agricultural installation. Most of a storage pithos was found, plus a very few Late Roman and Byzantine...
V. Papakonstantinou présente, A' Αρχαιολογικό και Ιστορικό Συνέδριο Αιτωλοακαρνανίας (1991), p. 23-26, plusieurs séries d'outils du Paléolithique Moyen recueillis lors de prospections dans la région d'Agrinio et sur les bords des lacs d'Ambracie et de...