avril 2016

A site between East and West The site of Philippi is located in northern Greece, in the region of eastern Macedonia, around 160km east of Thessaloniki, between the towns of Kavala and Drama. A Greek city founded in an area inhabited by Thracians, later colonised by the Romans and visited by the Apostle Paul, for…

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Beginning in 1975 excavations on the acropolis below the hill’s summit brought to light monumental remains that are part of vast storage areas. Over the years that followed (with a few interruptions) the excavation allowed us to bring out a substantial part of the building believed to be the palace of the kings of Amathus….

At the end of the 6th century and in the first half of the 7th century the whole of the island of Cyprus underwent a period of prosperity which manifested itself, in particular, in the (re)construction of a number of religious edifices. This is the case with Amathus where the largest basilica is located by…

Greek-style temples are extremely rare on Cyprus: besides the one at Amathus we actually only know of the temple of Zeus at Salamis and the sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion. Thanks to the discovery of a small treasury on the wall separating the pronaos and the cella, we know that the construction of the…

The presence of a colossal stone vase practically intact (in the Louvre since 1866) has attracted the attention of scholars to the upper part of the acropolis of Amathus and it was not until in 1976 that this area of the ancient city began to be explored scientifically. The discovery in 1979 of two dedications…

After the survey of the middle fortification wall of the acropolis in 1973 and the tragic events of 1974, the team mapped out a grid plan of the site in 1975 and started on the acropolis what would constitute a series of surveys aligned along an axe running North- South to obtain stratigraphic and topographic…

From the first year, Pierre Aupert, director of the mission, assembled a substantial team of archaeologists with the aim of starting several test trenches on the acropolis. These excavators followed one another in the field working in tandem with an extensive number of workers (at least twenty): in the years following the Turkish invasion of…