Gortina Agorà- Scavi 1996-1997

In 1996 and 1997, a century after the excavations conducted by F. Halbherr, new soundings were conducted in the Greek agora at Gortyna as part of the activities of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, and with the permission and cooperation of the 23th Ephoria of Antiquities of Heraklion. The excations started from the western edge of the agora, by the Mitropolianos torrent, where F. Halbherr and L. Pernier had discovered three parallel walls. A few targeted soundings, conducted stratigraphically, allowed three phases to be identified in the so-called double stoa, which delimitated the area to the north of the agora in the II-I centuries B.C., and was rebuilt in the Trajanic era, an…