Mandria-Agios Menas: Department of Antiquities salvage excavation

In 2009 Eustathios Raptou, Archaeological Officer, directed a rescue excavation for the Department of Antiquities at Mandria-Agios Menas after a mosaic floor was discovered¹. The western section of a three-aisled basilica, 14 by 10 m with an apse to the east, was exposed, with an annex to the northeast of the apse; the remains stood 30 to 40 cm high, and the aisles had floors of local marble slabs¹. The annual report dates the basilica to the 5th/6th century AD from its architecture and the way the mosaic was laid¹. After the basilica was destroyed, possibly in the Medieval period, a smaller church was built over the ruins, and its foundation trench partly damaged the apse and mosaic¹. The excavation is published in the Department's Annual Report for 2009¹.