Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità

The excavation of the south-eastern sector of the promontory has brought to light a domestic quarter, extending over terraces leading down to the port which were developed from the late Hellenistic age until the Byzantine period when the area was occupied by a manufacturing facility. With rare traces of the most ancient periods of which very scarce remains have been brought to light by the excavations, on the whole the complex presents the aspect that it must have had during the last phase of its use, that is during the first Byzantine age (IVth to the middle of the VII century A.D. The houses identified to date are composed of various rooms on more than one storeys that developed around open paved and porticoed spaces. Their access was assured by narrow streets that coped with the differences of level thanks to ramps or stairways. On the lower terrace a manufacturing area has been identified with a kiln for the production of LR1 amphora (in use until the beginning of the VIIth century A.D.) and of various structures related to this activity. Among which a cistern completely dug into the rock-bed the investigation of which allowed to discover a remarkable number of LR1 amphora in good state of conservation.