During this season the excavations continued in one of the areas discovered during the previous year, reaching up to the earliest floor level. Afterwards, the excavation was extended toward the north, east and south. A sondage undertaken in the lower part of the north-south directed wall, revealed pottery fragments of the Hellenistic period (black varnish vessels and Greek-Italian type amphorae). Two other sondages revealed remains of the first half of the 3rd century A.D. These remains were related to a demolition layer above which were found pottery fragments of the 2nd – 4th century A.D. The first phase of the Episcopal palace revealed material of the 5th century A.D. As a terminus post quem date for this phase is given by an African spatheion type amphora and a LRA1 type amphora. The considerable number of finds coming from the upper layers illustrates an intensive occupation of the palace at this period. On the Hellenistic wall are set two other walls, one on the eastern side (wall 257) and another one on the west (wall 231). The excavation of the western wall proved that it does not have a foundation level. To the north of it a floor level was discovered constructed with big blocks of stones. At the same place were found the remains of four bricks, which might be related to a channel, covered by the western wall (231). Further to the south was discovered a wall (212), parallel to the walls 231 and 257, and close to it a fragmented pithos. To the south of the excavated area was discovered a cistern with a hemispheric base. It is located at the end of the wall 503 which is thought to date to the 5th century A.D. The other phase is set on a layer that covers the demolition layer of the previous phase; the cistern channels seem to have been out of use at this period. A part of the floor area is turned into a yard, confined in its eastern side by the wall 501; remains of an inserted bench were found in the wall. The walls 239 and 503 to the south confine a passage which leads to the Justinianic wall. The wall 239 turns toward the north and later to the east. The yard is partly confined by the wall 408 to the south and the wall 411 to the west. The archaeological material found, like the African spatheion, LRA1B, LRA2 amphorae and a coin of the Justinian period, date the end of this phase of the Episcopal palace to the second half of 6th century A.D.