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Modern Description: Near the surviving church dedicated to the Taxiarches, ruins of a Late Roman building, probably a bath, were excavated under two successive layers belonging to a basilica (the first layer dating to the 5th-6th c.). Around the basilica a cemetery was created. Twenty-seven graves with multiple burials were excavated; an ossuary contained twenty-seven burials. Published finds include two bronze buckles of similar type, with a rectangular plate bearing relief decoration of a griffon on the one side and a lion on the other side (Pl. 26c-d), of the late 9th – 10th c., and fragments of glazed bowls with ‘Green and Brown Painted’ decoration, of the 12th c. Interestingly, the saint to whom the church was dedicated, Agios Aimilianos, was still known to the people of the area in the 1960s. The Taxiarches church is the probable location where a dedicatory inscription of a church, dating to the 5th or 6th c., was seen in the 19th c. The inscription reads: [ὑπέρ εὐχής - --] καί πάντων τῶν πρ[οσφερόντων - - -] / [- - - εἰς τον εὐκτή]ριον οἶκον τοῦτον ἐ[γένετο]. The church to which the inscription refers possibly is the Agios Aimilianos church, but this hypothesis cannot be tested. The Taxiarches church itself probably dates to the 13th c. (Tzavella 2012, p.
Wikidata ID: Q56397902
Trismegistos Geo: 37747

Info: E. Tzavella 2012

Elissavet Tzavella, URBAN AND RURAL LANDSCAPE IN EARLY AND MIDDLE BYZANTINE ATTICA (4TH – 12TH C. AD), PhD dissertation, Univ. of Birmingham 2012, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/16292781.pdf

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