During the 2006-2008 excavations a section of the southern part of the curtain wall was brought to light, from the point in which the walls were interrupted – in correspondence with an ancient entrance – as far as the south-western end, where they began to turn north. In 2009, prior to the excavation of another curvilinear stretch of the wall, another trench was opened immediately to the north, in order to ascertain its line and state of preservation.

At the point where the walls stopped what was probably an access ramp to the walled area was exposed below the layers of fill and collapse removed in previous years. The ramp was in correspondence with the above mentioned entrance that, together with the southern zone, was monumentalised during several restructuring interventions.

Close to the entrance an internal ramp was also uncovered which climbed towards the terracing running west to east. A room (“ι”) of Hellenistic date, opening onto it, was destroyed by a fire. Four dolia and other pottery, including miniature vases, were found in this room. Excavations in the room in 2008 and 2009 revealed a carbonised wooden table on which a jar was standing, other wooden elements and a lathwork wall that had collapsed, together with the roof, following the fire.

The complex monumental restructuring of the south area foresaw the construction of terracing (“θ”) originally fronted with large blocks, at least in its final phase. The terracing was attested by a deep layer of sandstone chippings and of several blocks found where they had collapsed, whilst the majority of the squared blocks must have been removed during robbing which continued until the middle of last century. The investigation of a preceding phase of terrace construction (preliminary date – second half of the 4th and the 3rd century B.C.) began in 2008 and continued in 2009, but was only investigated in depth in the eastern half. Here, the earliest structures were identified, probably dating to the archaic period, which were obliterated by the new construction.

At the centre of the area enclosed by the walls, occupied by complex “δ”, excavations continued with the aim of defining the south and west perimeters of the building. In the western half of the area other walls emerged on a slightly different alignment with respect to those identified in the eastern half. Unfortunately, the entire area had been levelled with dumps of stones and earth taken from other parts of the settlement (now almost completely removed) and subsequent interventions, even of modern date, that have substantially altered the original situation and inevitable complicated the interpretation of the complex, slowing down the investigation of the ancient structures.