KTIO DIPOROU - 2008

Ktio Diporou (Demos Chasion). G. Karamitrou-Mendesidi (Director, Λ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the excavation of settlement remains, including a large (Hel?) potter’s kiln (5 x 3.5m). Products of the kiln include fragments of a large terracotta animal (perhaps an elephant) bearing 2 riders, which may be a votive. At neighbouring Panagia Diporou, 5 pithoi were discovered containing 6th−5th Ct BC child burials. Grave goods include a handmade kantharos, glass beads, bronze rings and a bracelet, iron goods, a curved knife, a bronze horse figurine, and a terracotta figurine of an obese dwarf. The site neighbours Ktio Diporou and likely formed part of the same functional complex.