The excavations of the 2024 season continued to reveal the layout of the Southwest Temenos and provide evidence for the phases of its construction, use, and modification. The paved South Passage (at the center of the drone orthophoto above) separated Building A (to the right in the photo) from a suite of at least three rooms (to the left in the photo), and also contained a spectacularly well-preserved wall collapse. Various saggi (small excavation probes) throughout the complex shed light on soil stratigraphy from deposits predating construction to those created by the final occupation of the Temenos.

In Building A, possibly a naiskos (shrine or small temple structure), excavations in the 1960s identified a principal floor surface, and our excavations found no traces of earlier surfaces (see the exposed soil in the photo above). Our excavations also showed that the construction of the building did not involve any considerable disturbance of the soil on which it was built.

Dedicated teams studied the architecture, small finds, animal bones, archaeobotanical remains (e.g., seeds), and ceramics recovered in excavation. Here a fragmentary terra sigilata cup from the three-room suite (photo above) can be dated to ca. 10BCE–10CE, indicating a final period of occupation in the complex.