To the east of the Yllai harbor was located the ceramic workshop of the city that supplied the internal and external markets. Spanning from the Archaic to the Roman period, this workshop included two-story furnaces and all ancillary areas for the production of a variety of products. The main type of production of the workshop was the pointed-bottom type B amphorae with which wine and oil were transported, which were the most important export products of the island.
Corfu amphorae of this type were found in Lower Italy, Thassos, Corinth, Pella, Olympia, Athens, Serifos, Lefkada, Majorca, Benghazi and Alexandria, attesting to the wide spread of these products, the commercial expansion of the Corfu and the strong position that the latter held in transit trade. At the same time, however, he manufactured vases for everyday use, lamps, roof tiles, matrices, figurines and other objects serving the worship needs of the public.
In the southwest of the peninsula, south of the Hyllaic port, and outside the southern wall of the ancient city, deposits of the Archaic and Classical periods containing a large number of clay, female figurines and other objects from sanctuaries were discovered. Public or private buildings confirming the opinion that in Corfu from the middle of the 6th c. BC a domestic school of corroplastry, sculpture and architecture with influences of Corinthian art had developed.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou