Palaiopanagias Street, Paiania. YPPOA reports on the discovery of a new marble grave monument, discovered during excavations undertaken for the construction of the New Town Hall of Paiania.

This marble monument was erected in an ancient cemetery located SW of Katsoulerthi hill in Paiania. It is preserved in two pieces, depicting two full-length female figures. The woman on the right (the deceased) is depicted sitting with her feet on a footrest, and she wears a chiton and himation....

Paiania, Chrysanthemon Street, (O.T. 166, property of G. Kontaridi and Ch. Gialouri), Anonymous Street (O.T. 166, property of Al. Fotaki) and Anonymous St. (property of Asimakopoulou). Eleni Andrikou(B’ ΕΠΚΑ) and M. Mexi (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) report on the discovery of an ancient road and buildings on either side of it (Fig. 1). The road had retaining walls on both sides and preserved traces of wheel ruts (Fig. 2). Two rooms of a building, one of which contained a pithos (Fig. 3), were found on...

Paiania, Aghia Marina, N. Louka St. (O.T. 56, property of Oikonomopoulou-Vlachou). Eleni Andrikou(B’ ΕΠΚΑ) and M. Mexi (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) report on the discovery of a Classical and a Geometric cemetery. The peribolos of the Classical cemetery and the road passing in front of it were found. The cemetery contained rock-cut graves and pyres. Specifically, 1 cist grave (Fig. 1), 11 pit graves, 47 pyres and 1 tile-grave were excavated. The cist grave contained a female burial, a bronze mirror, a...

Paiania, Episkopis St. (O.T. 5034-5 property of Giannaki-Liolia). M. Mexi (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a Classical cemetery. Specifically, a peribolos wall enclosing 5 pyres was excavated. The pyres contained large quantities of half-burned wood (Fig. 1), small pieces of bronze foil, bronze pins, nails and lekythoi. Pyre 6 contained large quantities of branches and pieces of wood (Fig. 2), pottery, a bronze mirror (Fig. 3) and a burnt circular wooden object, which preserves tool...

Paiania, Paianias-Spaton 40 (AKA Aghiou Thoma St.). Eleni Andrikou (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavations during the expansion of the road. In total 15 trenches were dug on both sides of the modern road. South side of the road Trench 1: A Classical road was excavated. Trench 2: A rectangular, rock-cut pit serving as a deposit was revealed. It was filled with small stones, pottery sherds and fragments from animal figurines dating from the 6th to the 4th centuries B.C. Trench 3: A...

Paiania, Aphroditis Street, (O.T. 243, property of B. Seinti). Eleni Andrikou (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of two Neolithic houses (Fig. 1). The first was oval-shaped and had a stone-paved floor. Two pits were found near the house as well as rows of stones, which appear to have delimited irregularly-shaped areas. The second house had a double wall and was also stone-paved. Two circular and one horse shoe-shaped stone structures were found near it. These structures appear to have...

Paiania, Palaiopanagia (property of Athens Medical centre-Eurosite Health Services). Eleni Andrikou (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a circular building (Fig. 1), 3 pottery kilns and 6 burials. One of the kilns (Fig 2) contained Roman pottery sherds. The burials include 5 shaft graves and 1 tile-grave, and of these contained a pair of bronze earrings. Numerous bones were excavated from the area around the...

Paiania, Episkopis Street (O.T. 5034, property of D. Giannake). Eleni Andrikou (Β’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a limestone sarcophagus (internal dimensions 1.91 x 0.59m) with a pedimental lid, which contained an inhumation along the north side. Pieces of wood and a seashell were placed by the feet of the deceased, and fragments of two bronze strigils were found along the south wall. A first half fourth-century BC black-glaze phiale and a saltcellar probably comes from the southeast...

Paiania. Pousi Ledi. Two funerary periboloi were located at the junction of two ancient roads (Fig. 1) during work for the Attiki Odos. One peribolos, at the northwest of the crossroads, had a semicircular exedra in the corner; while the other, 60m to the west, was a simple rectangular structure. Inside the large peribolos were the built steps of six bases for funerary monuments. Below these were four marble larnakes and four cremations, with 11 later tile graves around them. A pit contained...

Pouli. A large Late Classical residential complex was excavated above an older sanctuary, a little before the entrance to the airport (Fig. 1). The sanctuary, a simple late fifth-century BC naiskos, was surrounded by a peribolos. Four lead weights were recovered from the residential...

Des fouilles menées, en 1991, dans deux terrains à bâtir de la région d'Aghios Athanassios, où des travaux de terrassement avaient détruit presque entièrement des vestiges tardo-byzantins (terrains Katsarou et Tagalidi), ont mis au jour trois grands pithoi et les restes d'un vaste bâtiment rectangulaire ; parmi les trouvailles, deux monnaies de Manuel Comnène (1143-1180) et une grande quantité de céramique glaçurée à décor gravé et peint. Ces vestiges doivent appartenir à un...