The Town Planning of Hellenistic Sikyon

This study offers an attempt to reconstruct the town planning of Hellenistic Sikyon based mainly on the results of the recent intensive surface and geophysical surveys. The fortifica­tions of the city were mapped over a total length of ca. 200 m and included seven gates. The city grid was oriented north­south, east­west, and included square insulae 60–65 m in length. The streets had an average width of 6 m with the exception of at least one avenue, almost 10 m wide. The estimated surface area of the agora ranges between 37,000 m2 and 59,000 m2, which would have corresponded to an area of 7.5 to 12 insulae. Towards the end of the article we examine various factors that are likely to have played a role in the design and application of the specific grid

Revealing the ancient city of Sikyon through the application of integrated geophysical approaches and 3D modelling

The ancient city of Sikyon is located in the northern Peloponnese covering an area of 250 ha on a plateau that rises about 4 km southwest of the Corinthian gulf.  Previous archaeological excavations revealed a limited number of monuments within the surroundings of the ancient agora. Since 2004, a consortium led by the University of Thessaly, the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, the University of York and the 37th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities initiated the Sikyon..

Chapter 22. A Bronze Inscribed Tablet from the Sikyonian Countryside A Reappraisal

In the mid 1930s a young shepherd from the Corinthian village of Kryoneri (formerly called Matsani) presented A. Orlandos, who was then conducting excavations in Sikyon, an inscribed bronze tablet found at Tzami, a place lying ca. 2.7 km northwest of his village. The text, 20 lines long, is entirely preserved and remains the longest surviving inscription ever found in the Sikyon area. In the course of the archaeological survey which I have conducted in the territory of ancient Sikyon, I inves..

Studies in Greek epigraphy and history in honor of Stefen V. Tracy

Ce recueil d'articles en épigraphie grecque est destiné à honorer l'œuvre de Stephen V. Tracy dont la recherche méticuleuse sur les "mains" - ou styles - des graveurs a transformé notre perception des inscriptions d'Attique et d'au-delà. Les vingt-neuf érudits qui ont contribué à ce volume présentent des articles qui dévoilent de nouvelles inscriptions ou de nouvelles études sur des textes connus depuis longtemps, mais aussi traitent de questions historiques, religieuses et sociales. Ainsi sont étudiées la Grèce, la Mer Egée et l'Asie Mineure occidentale sur une période qui s'étend de l'époque archaïque à l'Empire romain. Le point commun de ces Mélanges réside dans le caractère central de l'épigraphie, tant dans les problèmes soulevés que dans la conviction qu'un soin minutieux porté au moindre détail d'un témoignage épigraphique peut élargir et enrichir notre compréhension de l'histoire grecque.This collection of studies in Greek epigraphy honors the work of Stephen V. Tracy. His meticulous research on the hands of Attic letter-cutters has transformed the way we think about Greek inscriptions in Attica and beyond. The twenty-nine scholars who have contributed to this volume offer papers ranging from publication of new inscriptions and studies of others long-known to wide-ranging discussions of historical, religious, and social matters. Chronologically and geographically they cover Greece, the Aegean, and western Asia Minor from the Archaic period to the Roman Empire. What unites the work here offered to Tracy is the centrality of epigraphy to the questions addressed and conviction that careful attention to even the smallest details of the epigraphic evidence can advance our understanding of the Greek past in rich and unexpected ways

Via Egnatia after Egnatius: Imperial policy and inter-regional contacts

The Via Egnatia, which linked Dyrrachium to Kypsela and ultimately to Byzantium/ Constantinople, was the first Roman highway to be built east of the Adriatic. The studies published so far on this important road are devoted almost exclusively to its military importance, particularly during the Roman Republic. This author's goal instead was to assess the importance of the Egnatia at apolitical, social, and cultural level, by examining written sources (literary and epigraphical) and material remains. The article looks into the policy of Roman emperors regarding the Egnatia, and the role of the Via as a factor of commercial, social, and cultural interaction between the Italian peninsula and the Greek world, as well as among the cities and regions that it crossed. It also shows the contribution of the Egnatia to the spectacular development of certain cities and the parallel weakening of others, together with its impact upon the rural landscape

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