Thouria - 2019
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
8563
Année de l'opération
2019
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Espace public - Sanctuaire - Édifice Public - Édifice religieux - Temple - Établissement de spectacles - Théâtre - Revêtements (mur et sol) - Pierre
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Thouria
Thouria
Notices et opérations liées
Description
Thouria. X. Arapogianni (ASA) reports on a further season of excavation of the ancient theatre of Thouria (Figs 1-3), during which the stage-building (skenotheke) was completely exposed, its interior dimensions 21.40m x 7.70m (Fig. 2). On the floor of the stage-building, after the abandonment of the theatre, a two-storey building was built - largely from stone from the stage-building – comprising four inter-communicating spaces (Fig. 4). A stone staircase (6 steps preserved) led to the upper floor. Other walls were revealed, built with parts of a Doric building: epistyles with regulae and guttae, parts of a frieze with triglyphs and metopes, which were preserved with their white plaster, coloured in certain places with red. Another, portable, find was a perirrhanterio, almost complete, which implies the existence of a shrine. These later structures did not damage severely the floor of the stage-building, in which channels (for moving scenery) of at least 45m have been confirmed. The N supporting wall was also more completely revealed, with strong buttresses on its E and W side: length 16m and maximum height 3.10m.
Near the theatre, at the location Ellinika, there came to light architectural parts of a large Doric-style building, perhaps a temple: fluted column drums, fragments of Doric capitals, epistyles, blocks of a stylobate and an ashlar retaining-wall visible for 50m, which supported an extensive terrace (Fig. 5).
W of the Monastery of Ellinika, cleaning of undergrowth revealed part of the ashlar wall of ancient Thouria. Spherical stones found in the fill covering the wall attest to a siege. The wall preserves buttresses and between them niches comprising pilasters with large capitals, which carried monoliths as their roof (Figs 6-7).
Near the theatre, at the location Ellinika, there came to light architectural parts of a large Doric-style building, perhaps a temple: fluted column drums, fragments of Doric capitals, epistyles, blocks of a stylobate and an ashlar retaining-wall visible for 50m, which supported an extensive terrace (Fig. 5).
W of the Monastery of Ellinika, cleaning of undergrowth revealed part of the ashlar wall of ancient Thouria. Spherical stones found in the fill covering the wall attest to a siege. The wall preserves buttresses and between them niches comprising pilasters with large capitals, which carried monoliths as their roof (Figs 6-7).
Auteur de la notice
John BENNET
Références bibliographiques
Ergon (2019), 25-29.
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Date de création
2020-08-21 16:13:23
Dernière modification
2024-01-19 09:37:25
Figure(s)
Fig. 5/ Thouria, Ellinika: Property of Nikitas Dikaios, Trench 1 with accumulated old architectural members, from the W.