Lysi: Department rescue of the basilica

In 1963 A. Papageorghiou directed an investigation for the Department of Antiquities at a basilica 500 m west of Lysi, whose remains villagers had bulldozed while preparing to build a chapel¹. The investigation traced the foundations of a three-aisled church with three projecting semicircular apses and no narthex; the loss of the stylobates meant the division of the side aisles could not be determined¹. A small hexagonal marble slab found in situ at the southwest corner may indicate an opus sectile pavement¹. A chapel was later built south of the basilica, with a narthex added to the west; three tombs in the narthex held neither coins nor sherds¹. Karageorghis writes that no evidence for dating the basilica was found, but judges that it cannot be later than the seventh century¹.