of Leibethra, another upland fortified site occupied between the eighth
andfirst centurybc.^19 The surviving remains of the country house were
slightly smaller than that at Tria Platania (48 m x 28.5 m), but have many
similarities with it in form and design. Only parts of the main structures
were documented, consisting of a square residential complex with suites
of rooms on four sides (28.5 m x 28.5 m), on a foundation of stone blocks
with a clay mortar and an unbaked brick superstructure. The excavators
Fig. 4.4.Country house estate at Komboloi, Macedonia. The cellar, with
strengthened walls, perhaps supporting a tower (in the middle of the east wing
of the residential complex arranged around the square courtyard), seems to be
the earliest structure. There is an area for agricultural processing on the west,
around a paved coutryard, and there were other structures on the east side of the
main residence, perhaps around another courtyard.
(^19) Leibethra: E. Poulaki-Pandermali, E. Klinaki,‘Leibethra’,AEMY21 (2007) [2011]
161 – 9; Komboloi: Poulaki in Adam-Veleni et al. 2003, 63–70; Margaritis and Jones 2006 on
the analysis of pressed grape remains.
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