Research continued in the central part of the flat area of the town, immediately on the seaward side of the Casino Macrì.

Excavations resumed in the Hellenistic cult area (mid 4th-end of the 3rd century B.C.) where pre-matrimonial rituals involving the use of water took place. In particular, the excavation of the rooms on the north side of the courtyard (N1, N2) was extended exposing another room west of the first two (N3). The latter was built in a late phase of the sanctuary’s use. Depositions of refractory impasto cooking pots with lids were found immediately outside it.

In various points of the sanctuary, vats of various sizes were found sunken into the ground, lined with vertically placed tiles. Alongside the classes of finds connected with ritual activities already widely attested by the preceding campaigns (choroplastics, loom weights, shells, etc.), the fragments of a hipbath were found among the rubble obliterating a structure supplying water to room N2. Together with the numerous examples of louteria recovered, this find confirms the importance of water in the devotional rituals. The wall plaster in the rooms that were part of the sanctuary was restored.

Excavations also took place south of the great manmade channel of archaic date, underlying the imperial to late antique occupation phases. A complex stratigraphy relating to the Greek period was explored, with in depth excavations in the area corresponding with the stenopos S6 and the facades of the adjacent insulae, I6 to the south and I7 to the north. A stratigraphic sequence relating to the period between the 4th century B.C. – period in which insula I7 was built – and the 1st century B.C., when the road and houses appeared to have been abandoned, was excavated.