Be­tween 2010 and 2015 the Makrakomi Ar­chae­o­log­i­cal Land­scapes Pro­ject (MALP) con­ducted field­work around the vil­lage of Makrakomi in the Spercheios val­ley, lo­cated in the west­ern part of Ph­thi­o­tis (cen­tral Greece). Lim­ited by tall moun­tains in the south, north and west, the val­ley and its homony­mous river stretches to­wards the Malian gulf in the east. Due to its po­si­tion, the val­ley has acted as a bor­der zone be­tween north­ern and south­ern Greece, as well as a nat­ural pas­sage for both armies and trav­ellers. This made the val­ley in­creas­ingly im­por­tant dur­ing the Late Clas­si­cal and Hel­lenis­tic pe­ri­ods as armies marched across Greece more fre­quently fol­low­ing the rise of Mace­do­nia.

From 2010 on­wards the Swedish In­sti­tute and the Ar­chae­o­log­i­cal Ephor­ate in Lamia have jointly been car­ry­ing out ar­chae­o­log­i­cal in­ves­ti­ga­tions in the west­ern Spercheios Val­ley, in the mod­ern mu­nic­i­pal­ity of Makrakomi, as part of the Makrakomi Ar­chae­o­log­i­cal Land­scapes Pro­ject (MALP) un­der the gen­eral di­rec­tion of the di­rec­tor of the Ephor­ate, Maria-Photeini Pa­pakon­stan­ti­nou…