 Ό palate, I would like to express my warm thanks to the organizing committee, especially to Professor Carol Laber, for gave me the chance to participate in such an interesting session called in Berlin. Zaraques is situated in the southern part of Ikea, close at a point where the breadth of the island is reduced to a narrow girth, and is surrounded by the seas of El Meropotomous and Zaraques. Σήμερα, το 1997, το Φοράδιο Κάκης, όταν γίνεται για Ελίση Δίγγκη, κοντάξει σε ένα σπίτι από τη στιγμή του Ιοδόχου Σπηγίου, στο δίστημα από 3 χιλόμετρες από το σέντελμα της Ζάρακας. Αυτή η στιγμή είχε ήδη been expropriated στην κονταξία της κοστράξης της δημιουργίας του Φαλμυροπόταμου Ζάρακας. Μετά την κονταξία της σκέλης σαβρατίας, έπρεπε να εξοδεύει τις δυοσχαρές και τις κοκδεύεις για το διεξανό της Φαλμυροπόταμου Ζάρακας. Αυσοκτήσεις, δημιουργοί μεταξύ σαβρατές, έπρεπε να εξοδεύει από τη σύγχρη του δίγου της κοστράξης της δημιουργίας του Ιοδόχου. Η εξοδεύση παίρνει πιο πιο στην ελίση, όπου η κονταξία της κοστράξης της Ζάρακας, Έπρεπε να δοκιματισείται πιο στην εξοδεύση της κοστράξης της didίκου της Σάρακας. Εύκολα, η θημότητα της κοστράξης της Ζάρακας στην κοστράξης της δημιουργίας του Ώπου του Ιοδόχου, έπρεπε να εξοδεύει τις δυοσχαρές και τις δυοσχαρές της δυοσχαρίας της Ζάρακας. Στας επίκοντας του διεξανός της κοστράξης, κάθε όμορ από τη κονταξία του Ψείφου, Η κεφάλυξη δεύτερη της κομμάτου της λόγας πόλης, που έχει ένα μπροστά κομμάτι της κεφάλυξης, ήταν κομμάτου για μία λεγγή από 26 μέτρες. Τα κεφάλυξη δεύτερη πόλης δεν μπορεί να βγει στον πέτρο, που βγήκε στην ασφαλή του 50-60 μήτης από τη λεγγή της λόγας, που βγήκε στην κόμμα της λόγας, για μια ασφαλή του μόνο από 30 μέτρες. Οι συμφιλίες της κατακτηρισμίας της κομμάτου, Βέβαια, οι πότοιοι που μεταφέρουν their own block, όπως οι πότοιοι που βλέπουν, lead to each identification as an unblanc possibly upside down late geometric second phase building with a purry style. Βέβαια από το κόμμα, was found a series of pits. They were carved into the soft-sheathed bedrock and were filled with sandy soil. These pits were probably tented for planting bushes or other plants, but there is a strong probability that the area was surrounded by a sacred grove. The planting of sacred grove structures and especially those of Apollo is attested in written sources. The most major of which is Pozzania. Nevertheless, the absence of material remains from inside the pits makes the chronological determination of this landscaping extremely difficult. Near the purry style halls was discovered a fragment of an inscribed relief pithos where one reads the word Eros. The lower zone of the neck of the pithos is decorated with a repeated motif of a center with a human frontal torso. This mythological creature is moving to the right holding a tree trunk with a sharp edge. Under the belly of a center a heart is depicted in an upside position moving in the same direction. The next decorative zone of the pithos bear an insized dedicatory inscription. According to colleague Agilos Mateu who published the inscription the dedicator of the pithos was a porter for in descent. In this inscription the porter described with a verpe spallace the technique used for the better application of the stripe of clay on the vase. In this technique the porter insized and intervals that part of the vase which would receive the added stripe of clay upon which the relief decoration was executed with a cylinder stump. On the basis of the closest parallettes from Rodian and Corinthian workshops our pithos may be dated in the second half of the 7th century BC. The choice of the iconographic theme of centers or pithos should perhaps be connected to the mythological traditions that are associated with the area of Xaraques. According to the poem Alexandra of the Hasidian poet Lycophron Xaraques was an Euboean mountain and its name derived from eponymous hero Son of Caestos. Given the close relationship between the above local heroes the artist of the pithos was aware of this myth and that the famous center hero was the source of inspiration for his decorative theme. The relief porter includes fragments of vases possibly pithoi, two of which are decorated with a zone of a simple ghillos and a rope motif. Moreover, two examples of pictorial decoration executed with a flat stump from Xaraques is a very fragmented state of preservation. The first belongs to a clay circular plaque decorated with two undythetic animals a lion and a boar. On the second fragment a small size figure is depicted walking to the right and holding a short upside down. On the right section of the fragment a helmeted warrior is discerned holding a spear and a circular shield next to a horse. The only preserved physiognomic threat of the warrior is his long pointed nose that projects from a helmet similar to warrior figures on relief pithoi from a tenian workshop. Despite the fragmented state of preservation we may assume with all due reservation that in this composition the artist intending to depict the departure of a warrior on a chariot or on a horseback on the analogy of other representations in the relief pottery of the Cyclades and other regions. The relief decoration of the Xaraques pottery executed with a stump is encountered often in South Ubia such as in Caristos in Filagra and recently in Capsuri of Cavodoro. On the contrary, in Eretria we are dealing with the application of the hand-maid as the mould technique which indicates relations with Cyclades workshops. The wide application of the stomach technique for the execution of the relief decoration in the Xaraques pottery in combination with the use of the local clay point to the operation of local workshops in the area during the 7th and the 6th century. These workshops were run not only by local but also by tinera potters who drew on neighbouring or more distant workshops and also created new prototypes for pictorial compositions. In order to provide for the cult needs of the pilgrims potters were also manufacturing local products mainly luteria i.e. spouted basins for pouring liquids which became very common during the 7th century few of these bear inscription one this luterium and crater. The inscribed vessels mentioned above testify to the presence of dedicators who may be identified with the potters themselves. This hypothesis is further corroborated by the use of abbreviation for the reddening of their names. A simply macroscopic examination of the material shows that a coarse-grained clay was used for the manufacture of the coarse-ware of the archaic pottery discussed above. At this point I should note that thanks to a research project run by Professor Jan Paul Krillard selected ceramic samples of coarse-ware from Xaraques will be analysed petrographically and studied by Assistant Professor Xenia Haralabidou. So we hope that further answers will be given about the origin of fabrics and the location of the clay sources. In addition to locally made coarse-ware a few examples of painted pottery were also found in the excavated area. Its proto-atic pottery and cotelai. West of the above mentioned late geometric structure there came to light this country remains of the late classical building for a length of 14 meters. Its fragmentary state of preservation is due to the fact that it was used for the foundation of building which dates to the early Byzantine years with the blue colour is dedicated to the classical phase and with red the Byzantine period. The continuation of workship during the classical period is attested also by presence of search with incisive inscription and symbols of the 5th century. In one case, in particular, we are informed of the name of the dedicator Risiclides on the right. This name is not encountered in Yubia but it is found in Athens. This coupled with the fact that the name is inscribed on anatic type scephos of the 5th century point to the identification of an Athenian dedicator. The presence of Athenias is also indicated by the finding of the small quantitative white black figure pottery dated to the second half of the 6th century and to the 5th. In the 4th century, belong black painted scephoi inscribed on their face with an abbreviated form of the word Eros, most of them were found in the interior of the above mentioned classical building. The discovery of metal artefacts also in combination with the detection of a few remnants of metallurgical activity such as fragments of compacting sheets embraces the possibility that metallurgical workshops were operating in the area of the analogy of the ceramic ones in order to cater to the visitors of the sanctuary. The bronze weight of the 4th century that bears the inscription Apollon's Delio indicates that during the classical period the sanctuary was dedicated to Apollon. Two small fragments of naked marked figures may be identified also as offerings to Delian Apollo as they read the goat in a similar way with figure types found in Delos. Apollo was co-worshipped as Delian with litho and Artemis in Eretria as well as on Plakari hill in Caristos. The worship of Apollo in Caristos is in agreement with the descent of the Caristians from the Driopes whose mythical ancestor was ancestor was Driopes son of Apollo. The earliest testimony for a route followed by the sacred offerings during their passage through Euboea is found in Herodotus. In particular, Caristos and other Euboean cities were stopped points of the annual trip of the sacred offerings from the lat of the Hyperborians. After a long trip through Scythia, the Adriatic Sea, Dodone, the Malian Gulf and the cities of Euboea, the offerings were transported by sea to Tenos and from there they arrived in their final destination on the sacred island of Delos. This land or sea route of the offerings as attested by ancient sources forms an appealing ground to Charmais that the ancient dem of Xarax with its sanctuary was among the Euboean cities through which the procession of the sacred offerings went. Moreover, the location of the Xarax Sanctuary at the distance of circa 4 km from its harbour, Almiropotamos, facilitated its communication with contemporary coastal sites of Euboea and other neighbouring areas such as in Zagora, in Andros. On the occasion of the passage of the procession through the S. and D. of Xarax, its citizens, as well as other pilgrims would participate in the feast where commercial transaction also took place. It is probable that the way dedicated to Delia and Apollo was used during such transaction on the analogy of dedicated ways found in the Sanctuary of Zeus and Olympia. Moreover, strabo statement that the Delian celebration in honour of Apollo as itepanigiris eborikon ti pragmais ti which means the feast is some sort of commercial thing attest to the engagement in commercial transaction during its course. This view is further corroborated by the discovery of bronze coins from the Euboean link which would have been used in transactions. On the basis of two inscribed charts it is possible that in Xarax Apollo was also worshipped as ekibolos meaning the well-aimed, fast-shooting archer. The fact that in the Homeric hymn to Delian Apollo the god is referred as ekibolos or ekatibolos the verse mentioning the passage of the gods through Euripus and hastes the probability that this particular epithet was inscribed on the search mention above. The various dedicated finds show that the Sanctuary was in use from late geometric to late classical times during which period it flourished. In Hellenistic times it seems to be on decline as indicated by the collected few search and is gradually abandoned. The fact that a great quantity of the pottery was found outside the excavated area indicates in this place that after the abandonment of the Sanctuary the area was hastily cleaned and the offerings were dumped in the neighboring plot where they were uncovered during the excavation. In the early Byzantine period a settlement and workshop installation and ceramic workshops were founded in the area of the Sanctuary. It is true that the fragmentary character of the excavated data from Xarakis does not allow a satisfactory identification and reconstruction of uncovered architectural remains and finds. Nevertheless these humble remains have not only added to the map of Yubia another cult place dedicated to Apollo but also another site of trading, production and intercultural context. Thank you very much for your attention.