Kato Achaia, Aratou, Filopoimenos, Fleming, Athinas Streets - 2007
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Record ID
8425
Activity Date
2007
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Kato Achaia
Kato Achaia
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2007
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Kato Achaia, Aratou, Filopoimenos, Fleming, Athinas Streets, Ο.Τ. 36 (property of K. Takopoulos. parking area). Vasiliki Tsaknaki (ΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the excavation of architectural remains belonging to ancient Dyme and dated to the Hellenistic and Roman periods (Fig. 1). Most of the walls were preserved only as foundations of local limestone rubble. The upper parts were made of roughly worked sandstone, rubble and tile fragments. Also discovered was the base of a storage pithos and part of a road surface.
In the middle of the property was an open-air colonnaded cistern (impluvium) (4.60×5.60 m.), constructed during the Imperial period in the same location as a previous building. It consisted of eight columns and a floor lined with hydraulic plaster, overlying a base of pebbles and a thin layer of tile fragments, following the opus spicatum system (Fig. 3). Its walls of 0.50 m. in width were made of tile fragments and white mortar. The cistern was covered by a destruction layer made up of tiles from its own roof (compluvium) (Fig. 4). In the eastern part of the northern wall of the colonnaded cistern was a drainage hole which led to a roofed sewage channel (2) (Fig. 2). Along the eastern outer side of the cistern was another channel (1), which joined with the previous one (2)
In the middle of the property was an open-air colonnaded cistern (impluvium) (4.60×5.60 m.), constructed during the Imperial period in the same location as a previous building. It consisted of eight columns and a floor lined with hydraulic plaster, overlying a base of pebbles and a thin layer of tile fragments, following the opus spicatum system (Fig. 3). Its walls of 0.50 m. in width were made of tile fragments and white mortar. The cistern was covered by a destruction layer made up of tiles from its own roof (compluvium) (Fig. 4). In the eastern part of the northern wall of the colonnaded cistern was a drainage hole which led to a roofed sewage channel (2) (Fig. 2). Along the eastern outer side of the cistern was another channel (1), which joined with the previous one (2)
Author
Michael Loy
Bibliographic reference(s)
ADelt 63 (2008) Chr., 499-502
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2020-06-04 12:50:54
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2024-01-18 09:26:40
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Fig. 1/ Excavation plan and section drawings
Fig. 2/ The atrium, pipe 2 and pithos 2 from the east
Fig. 3/ Detail view of the atrium floor
Fig. 4/ Cistern 1 and pithos 2 from the east