The 2017 excavations at Paestum undertaken by Naples “Orientale” University aimed to explore a domestic building of archaic date, discovered in 1987 and partially excavated in 1994 and 1996. The objective was to investigate the entire northern sector, of which only one room had been excavated, and to establish the east and west perimeters of the property. The southern part of the building may be excavated in the future.

The room of archaic date that was partially explored in 1994 was fully excavated. This large room measured 8 m on its N-S side by 4.50 m on the W-E side and was built in small limestone blocks arranged in double rows; the entrance was to the south. It had already been identified as an andron as the remains of a banquet and an assemblage of vases for a symposium were found here.
This season’s trench re-exposed elements of a water supply system belonging to a Roman house that were excavated in 1996 (a well, a cistern and a vat/pool lined with opus signinum).

The excavations were limited to identifying and cleaning some of the constructions known from earlier work. The only newly excavated element was a short stretch of a wall on an east-west alignment on the north-western side of the archaic room. It probably delimited, to the north, an adjacent room also of archaic date and therefore part of the archaic house we intend to investigate.

Inside the room/_andron_ the archaeology relating to the final occupation phase of the Greek house (c. 500-480/70 B.C.) was reached. The latter corresponded with the level at which the previous investigations were halted. Fragments of black glaze pottery were present on the surface, which were part of the furnishings when the room was abandoned, which previous excavation results date to sometime within the first half of the 5th century B.C.

In 2018, it is hoped to excavate the room down to its original layout dating to the first half of the 6th century, and identify the west and eastern perimeters of the domestic building. Based on a series of clues that emerged during previous investigations, they should be marked by two parallel walls on a north-south alignment situated a few metres to the west and east of the andron