KATARRAKTIS - 2000

Bakalarou (Ch. Chamouza property). A group of three pithos burials on a low plateau to the left of the road to Kalavryta was located. Pithos I (oriented west-southwest- east-northeast, with a slab over the mouth) contained a Late Geometric krateriskos (Fig. 1). Pithos II lay west of pithos I on the same orientation but with the vessel mouths together. It was empty, but a black-glazed sherd of 325−300 BC lay outside it. Pithos III (oriented east-west), south of pithos I, contained no grave goods. A Hellenistic structure west of the pithoi is probably a farmstead. Two further pithoi (oriented west-southwest - east-northeast) were found 200m east of the first group, beside the road. Neither contained grave goods.

Rizes (O. Diamanti field). West of Bakalarou, on the outskirts of Mirali, to the left of the road to Kalavryta, lie scattered orthostates, Laconian roof tiles and Hellenistic sherds.

Skala (Karelia brothers’ property). In the course of deforestation 300m east of Bakalarou, three vessels were found (including a prochous and a tear-bottle). Three tile graves were investigated. Tomb I (oriented northeast-southwest) covered a cremation with two broken vessels outside. Tomb II (oriented east-west) contained traces of a cremation and an iron object. Tomb III (oriented northeast-southwest) contained a supine inhumation with an undecorated unguentarium outside the tomb.