OLYMPIA - Sanctuary of Zeus - 2010
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
2077
Année de l'opération
2010
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Archaia Olympia
Archaia Olympia
Notices et opérations liées
Description
Olympia. R. Senff (DAI) reports. After the condemnation of pagan cults and the destruction of its buildings through earthquakes and quarrying, modest settlement within the area of the sanctuary of Zeus continued until the Early Middle Ages. Thereafter, erosion and flood buried the ruins under metres of sediment. However, protective measures dating back into antiquity prove that environmental factors always had a major impact on the topography of the sanctuary. Several cores and geoelectric profiles were made in the previously unexcavated area southwest of the sanctuary by the ancient Kladeos shore wall (Fig. 1), to the west of the modern Kladeos riverbed (Fig. 2), and in the Alpheios plain, to elucidate the sedimentary history of these areas.
A new architectural study of the so-called South Stoa was undertaken. Delimiting the sanctuary towards the Alpheios, the stoa lies at the southern edge of the archaeological zone, marking the limit of the old excavations (Fig. 3). It is open towards the river to the south, with a protruding central section. Built in the mid fourth century BC and repaired at least once during Imperial Roman times, it was excavated between 1875 and 1881 and again in 1937/38 and 1938/39. In 2010, a stone-by-stone plan was made at a scale of 1:50 (Fig. 4). A further aim was to establish whether and how terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is methodologically and economically viable for recording such a structure, and whether the resulting data can be used for reconstructions. The monument was recorded three-dimensionally through TLS: scatter plots of measurements made in numerous locations were then joined digitally (Fig. 5).
Auteur de la notice
Catherine MORGAN
Références bibliographiques
Unpublished field report, DAI (R. Senff)
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Date de création
2011-06-18 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-09 10:27:37
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Olympia: boring with percussive drill (Atlas Copco Cobra mk 1) in the southwest near the Kladeos shore wall.
Fig. 2/ Olympia: boring with Bohrraupe, (Nordmeyer RS 0/2.3) west of the Kladeos.
Fig. 3/ Olympia: South Stoa, from west.
Fig. 4/ Olympia: South Stoa, plan: first draft of combined hand-made drawings.
Fig. 5/ Olympia: South Stoa. Screenshot of a detail of the scatter plot created by TLS scan: view from east of protruding central south façade.