Thorikos - 2018
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Record ID
8492
Activity Date
2018
Chronology
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Type of Operation
Institution
Localisation
Toponym
Thorikos, Thorikon, Thoricus
Thorikos, Thorikon, Thoricus
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Report
Thorikos. R. Docter (EBSA / Ghent University) and S. Déderix (EBSA / Universität Heidelberg / Université catholique de Louvain) report on the first year of a new five-year project. A team of Ghent University and Utrecht University, directed by R. Docter and F. van den Eijnde (Utrecht University) started an excavation on a large rectangular construction between the West Necropolis and the Industrial Quarter that had been interpreted as part of the city walls of Thorikos. It contained at least two phases; its walls were 0.80 m thick and reinforced, probably at the end of the 5th century BC, to measure 2 m, probably also relating to a nearby cistern or water basin. It is interpreted in relation with the defensive walls that H. Mussche had mapped to the west of the site, and may have been in a gateway position. The construction was documented using a 3D photogrammetric method (Fig. 1).
A team led by R. Laffineur (Université de Liège), S. Déderix, N. Papadimitriou (Universität Heidelberg), A. Sarris (IMS-FORTH) and M. Nazou (Université catholique de Louvain) launched a two-year program aimed at studying, publishing and contextualizing the prehistoric remains excavated on the acropolis of the Velatouri during the late 19th and the mid-20th century. The acropolis and the east slope of the hill were surveyed, thus continuing the work conducted on the south slope by Docter and van den Eijnde (Ghent and Utrecht) in 2012-2015. Geophysical prospections (A. Sarris, IMS-FORTH) and geochemical prospections (E. Filippaki and Y. Bassiakos, NCSR Demokritos) were undertaken around the three trenches opened by Jean Servais (1960-1970s) on the plateau to the east of the Great Velatouri. Higher up, on the summit of the Great Velatouri, the prehistoric buildings discovered by Valerios Staïs (1890s) were cleaned and documented in 3D using photogrammetric and laser scanning methods (G. Cantoro, IMS-FORTH). In parallel, N. Papadimitriou (Universität Heidelberg) started to study the archives and finds from Servais’ excavations on the plateau and in the Mycenaean tombs.
In a joint effort by some 40 collaborators to the project, an introductory booklet on the site of Thorikos, Exploring Thorikos (Ghent, 2018), was published. In the frame of this publication, also a new general map of the site was prepared (Fig. 2).
A team led by R. Laffineur (Université de Liège), S. Déderix, N. Papadimitriou (Universität Heidelberg), A. Sarris (IMS-FORTH) and M. Nazou (Université catholique de Louvain) launched a two-year program aimed at studying, publishing and contextualizing the prehistoric remains excavated on the acropolis of the Velatouri during the late 19th and the mid-20th century. The acropolis and the east slope of the hill were surveyed, thus continuing the work conducted on the south slope by Docter and van den Eijnde (Ghent and Utrecht) in 2012-2015. Geophysical prospections (A. Sarris, IMS-FORTH) and geochemical prospections (E. Filippaki and Y. Bassiakos, NCSR Demokritos) were undertaken around the three trenches opened by Jean Servais (1960-1970s) on the plateau to the east of the Great Velatouri. Higher up, on the summit of the Great Velatouri, the prehistoric buildings discovered by Valerios Staïs (1890s) were cleaned and documented in 3D using photogrammetric and laser scanning methods (G. Cantoro, IMS-FORTH). In parallel, N. Papadimitriou (Universität Heidelberg) started to study the archives and finds from Servais’ excavations on the plateau and in the Mycenaean tombs.
In a joint effort by some 40 collaborators to the project, an introductory booklet on the site of Thorikos, Exploring Thorikos (Ghent, 2018), was published. In the frame of this publication, also a new general map of the site was prepared (Fig. 2).
Author
Michael Loy
Bibliographic reference(s)
Unpublished field report, EBSA
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Date of creation
2020-06-13 11:48:40
Last modification
2024-01-19 09:14:23
Picture(s)
Fig. 1/ Photogrammetric plan of the excavation
Fig. 2/ Map of the site produced as part of the ‘Exploring Thorikos’ publication project