Sitting on the northern coast of Cos, a basilica contemporaneous with those at Kardamaina and various “Early Byzantine settlements and workshop installations” existed at Mastichari (Poulou-Papadimitriou and Didioumi 2015: 403). The site was inhabited since “the Prehistoric period,” but well-dated occupation is first attested in the 3rd c. BCE (Poulou-Papadimitriou and Didioumi 2015: 411). Throughout its entire inhabitance it seems to have been a small agricultural-based village in a fertile area between two streams.
Poulou-Papadimitriou, N. and Didioumi, S. "Two Pottery Workshops of the Early Byzantine Period in the Island of Cos (Greece)" in Tourner autour du pot: Les ateliers de potiers médiévaux du Ve au XIIe siècle dans l'espace européen, ed(s). Thuillier, F. and Louis, E. Publications du Craham: série antique médiévale Caen: 2015, 401–418
Site: Mastichari (Greece/Kos), Contributor(s): ; The Levantine Ceramics Project, accessed on 02 May 2025, https://www.levantineceramics.org/sites/2705-mastichari.
