ATHENS - 2002
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
2166
Année de l'opération
2002
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Installation hydraulique - Revêtements (mur et sol) - Monnaie - Four - Maison - Citerne - Canalisation - Voierie
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Notices et opérations liées
2002
Description
Amalias Avenue. Th. Kyriakou (Γ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation in preparation for the laying of a tram line in the area of the Arch of Hadrian (Fig. 1).
Part of a wall (Fig. 2) uncovered 66.2m south of the Arch and 7.7m west of the peribolos of the Olympieion is identical in construction with the Ottoman wall built by the voivode of Athens, Chaseki, in 1778, a section of which was previously found along Dionysiou Areopagitou. The new section (3.1m long, 0.6m wide), built of unworked stones, tile, and marble architectural spolia, is oriented east-west.
Part of a rectangular cistern (3.5 x 6.5m), with walls of unworked stones, tile and hydraulic mortar, was found 28.3m south of the Arch. It contained Byzantine and post-Byzantine sherds and a coin of the 11th century AD.
In front of the Arch lay part of the road which leads outside the walls, with fragmentary building remains alongside it. This road follows the same course as the path which in the Classical period ran from within the city to a gate in the Themistoklean walls, and in Hadrian’s time into the new city. Successive road surfaces dated from the Classical to the Late Roman periods. Three metres northwest of the north jamb of the Arch lay the foundations of a house, part of a small cistern, and a fourth-century AD channel. Sherds from within the buildings were mostly Late Roman and Byzantine in date. Further south was a small semicircular structure, perhaps a hearth, with five almost complete fourth-century AD pots (three oinochoes and two amphorae).
Auteur de la notice
Robert PITT
Références bibliographiques
AD 56-59 (2001-2004) Chr., 220-222.
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Date de création
2011-06-23 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-09 11:20:21
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Amalias Avenue: excavation plan with section of the wall of Chaseki.
Fig. 2/ Amalias Avenue: section of the wall of Chaseki.