KLEONAI - 2008

Kleonai. T. Mattern (DAI/Marburg) and K. Kissas (Director, ΛΖ' ΕΠΚΑ) report on a collaborative pilot project to produce an inventory of remains in the immediate surroundings of the anc. city, through a combination of field survey of the area immediately to the S, recording of previously known sites and analysis of Ephoreia records. An initial overview of this evidence will be of value in its own right, as well as a tool to assist in co-ordinating the protection of archaeological monuments. Results include the identification of anc. roadways in the immediate vicinity of the city, some flanked by funerary monuments. Several extramural sanctuaries were located; they probably include Khan Kourtesa, S of the city, the location of a spring, a mod. church and several members of a monumental Doric structure, including part of a geison (Fig. 1). Together with earlier discoveries of grave material in the immediate vicinity of the Khan, this suggests a locus of settlement here. To the NE of the Temple of Herakles, several architectural members may suggest a further extramural sanctuary, and S of the city wall there is evidence of dispersed settlement.