Goshi (Koshi): rescue excavation of a Hellenistic tomb, 2008

Roadworks southeast of Koshi, on the road to the Lympia landfill, brought to light a rock-cut tomb registered as MLA 1944, Tomb 79, and in 2008 Efthymia Alphas, Contract Archaeological Officer, carried out a salvage excavation for the Department of Antiquities¹. The tomb had a stepped dromos and apsidal loculi to the right and left of the central chamber; a digger had removed almost all of the central chamber before the Department was notified, and the skeletal remains were very poorly preserved¹. The report dates the finds to the Hellenistic period: 18 lagynoi, 7 jugs, 2 beakers, a clay lamp, 2 glass and 2 clay unguentaria, 2 glass beads, and sherds of glass and clay vessels¹.