ATHENS-Kladou 6 - 2008

Athens, Kladou 6 (property of E. Nomikou). N. Sarga and K. Tsogga (Α’ ΕΠΚΑ) report on further excavations in the basement of a modern building, which lies east of the Athenian Agora. The following finds were revealed:
a) Architectural parts, dating from the Late Roman to the middle Byzantine period (Fig 1).
b) A Byzantine wall, which may belong to the church of Aghios Thomas (Fig 2).
c) The remains of a bath complex. These include 3 walls (Figs 3), a rectangular bathtub constructed from white and grey-green marble slabs (Fig 4), mortar floors, part of the vent of the hypocaust, and the foundations of a cistern (Fig 5).

Other finds from the area include fragments of white, ash-green, red and multicoloured marble slabs, and glass sherds from unguentaria.
The excavated bath complex is likely associated with Hadrian's Gymnasium, excavated by ASCSA in the Athenian Agora. It appears to have been in operation from Hadrianic to Late Roman/Early Christian times.