ARGOS - 2000

Argos. Basileos Georgiou and Nikitara Streets (D. Roubeka property). A. Banaka-Dimaki (Director, Δ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports on rescue excavation in the southern part of this plot, east of Ag. Petros square in the centre of Argos.
A Hellenistic house (oriented northwest-southeast) had at least two rooms and two probable storage areas. The walls were of unworked stones bound with clay and the floors of red-brown clay spread over a layer of river pebbles. West of the house, a section of ancient road constructed of cobbles and tile was disturbed by Byzantine intrusions. The south edge of the exterior house wall curves to accommodate the eastwards turn of the road.
The house was founded in riverine fill containing Geometric pottery and a few Archaic Argive figurine fragments. A similar history of activity is indicated by previous excavations in the wider area, on the Bertzeletou (BCH 77 [1953], 211), Flessa (ADelt 16 [1960] Chr, 93), Alexopoulou and Katsarou (ADelt 17 [1961−1962] Chr, 55−56) and Paraskevopoulou properties, and for the OTE building (ADelt 21 [1966] Chr, 126−27). Thus finds from the property of A. Bertzeletou, ca. 110−20m north of the Roubeka property, include architectural remains of the end of the fourth to the first half of the third century (cf. BCH 78 [1954], 410−26, esp. 423).