Excavations in 2012 focused on the western part of the hill where the ancient city of Phoinike is located, with the aim of obtaining archaeological data regarding the private constructions of Phoinike, their architectural characteristics and the period of their construction. The first trenches, two in total, were placed on one of the terraces not far from where the house with two peristyles and a structure thought to belong to the Roman period were discovered. At the end of the excavation in this trench, no important data was collected due to the almost total lack of structures and the shallow depth of the trench , which reached the natural rock. Two other trenches numbered 3 and 4 were opened in sector C4. They are positioned in a space limited to the east by a wall with north-south direction, composed of medium and large stone blocks. At the end of the excavation in these trenches, it was possible to identify the presence of at least four layers. A first layer consisting of dark colored humus, which was placed over a layer rich in ceramic material.
The third layer consisted of rich material consisting of tiles, stones, as well as common ceramics of the Hellenistic period. The last layer covering the floor, consisting of natural rock, worked and leveled in the central part of the trench by means of a cocciopesto filling, which has a circular shape of about 1 m in diameter. To the west of sector C4 another trench was opened where important data was collected regarding the use of this terrace for the construction of a private structure. The ceramic material recovered during the excavation in this trench consists of pottery, tiles and material resulting from the destruction of the walls of the structure. The old floor has not yet been reached with certainty, but it seems that even in this case we are dealing with the arrangement and systematization of the natural rock. Based on the material found, we think that this newly discovered structure may belong to the end of the third century BC or the first half of the second century BC, which was followed by ruin and abandonment around the beginning of the first century AD. After this period, this area was apparently no longer used for housing.