EDESSA - 2006

Edessa. A. Chrysostomou (ΙΖ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports on work undertaken in 2005−2006 to conserve and better present the archaeological site. This included excavation down to stereo in areas 1 and 2, beside the main street. Five new pits for storage pithoi are added to the previous record in these areas and date to the earlier phases of habitation, as do walls I and III in area 1 and I−III in area 2. In both areas, wall I continues E into the area of the stoa, indicating that the building line in the earlier periods lay near the W edge of the main street. An iron lamp was discovered near the floor of the last phase in area 2. Trial trenches in the stoas and the main street yielded a LRom marble relief of the Dioskouroi from the W stoa, and, from the E stoa, 5 inscribed lead strips.