The first monumental graves of the Roman colonists were constructed in the north cemetery in the end of the 1st century A.D.

This cemetery which is the oldest and larger of the ancient Patras consists of graves that dated from the end of the 5th century B.C. to the 7th century A.D. and occupies a large area from the centre of modern Patras (the southern bound is the Patreos St.) towards the North. The main burial road was formed in the 1st-2nd century A.D. and directed from SW to NE. In the 2nd century A.D. the burial constructions were already organised in clusters with façade in a large burial road. 80-82, Ermou St. A monumental burial building of the roman years came to light and was kept in the basement of the modern construction. This building was a family grave built by a rich individual and is dated to the 1st century A.D.

The burial room had internal dimensions 5,60m x 3,80m, 3,60m height, covered with cylindrical vault that held in walls of 2m width. Internally, in the four walls of the chamber there were niches, four in each side except from the SE where there was one in the right and one in the left of the entrance. The niches of the long sides had four ceramic urns each while in the other niches there were two urns in each side. The door of the entrance was closed later by the Christians when they used the room as a place for worship and created a new entrance in the SW side of the roof with a scale and in parallel adorned the walls with frescoes. The base which was appended in the west side of the room was Π-shaped, was covered by rectangular porous stones the lowest row of which protruded 0,40m and shaped a form in the internal of the exedra that supported by lion feet. The exedra which was used for the rest of the visitors viewed in the burial road. In the core of the base was a grave with a burial and rich finds. Above the burial chamber was placed a temple with four pillars in the front as we can assume from the remains of the walls. In the Byzantine years over the dilapidated roman structure a Christian small church of Saint Andrew was constructed and its walls were decorated with related representations. 75, Konstantinoupoleos and 88, Norman St. A part of the north necropolis of the ancient city which extended along the large burial street with 8m width in this point and direction from SW to NE was discovered. Burial buildings, champers and isolated burials were excavated along the west side of the street and were dated to the Hellenistic, early and late roman period. In the late roman period the level of the burial street rose. In the unbuilt area of the apartment block in the address above, the funerary building has the shape of a cross and dates from the 2nd c. A.D. (fig. 23). The dead man’s tomb has not survived. It had a monumental façade with a marble pediment, a few fragments of which are preserved.

Of a special interest is a stone roman exedra Π-shaped (3,10m x 2,60m), the only one in Patras which was found and saved in the basement of the building in 88, Norman St. Amerikis and Thermopylon St. The burial street which directed from N to S was excavated in this area. This street which passed through the extent north cemetery, continued outside the city as a via publica and leaded to Aigion, Corinth and Athens. Forty-six graves were excavated in the two sides of the street. The most important of them was one with a monumental façade towards the street. It was a rectangular building with stone foundation with steps, external dimensions 3,60m x 3,40m and the remaining height 1,10m. The walls were built with bricks (0,23m x 0,20m x0,08m) and connecting material. The entrance was in the West side and had a stone threshold. The room (1,70m x 1,50m internal dimensions) was of the type of a little columbarium and in each of the three sides, except from the west, were two alcoves where urns probably placed but no urns were found. The building dated to the 2nd century A.D. and saved in the basement of the modern structure.