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Norme sulla tutela dell'ambiente nelle poleis greche di età pre-ellenistica

2020

This paper offers a study of fifth- and fourth-century BC epigraphical and literary documents pertaining to what we may call ‘ancient ecology’. Even though documents are not many, there is proof of laws governing cleanness and decorum of Greek cities’ public space. From the evidence it is possible to state that city institutions intervened on this matter only in few and ‘exceptional’ cases, with the aim of preventing that some particular areas of the city, which were of primary importance for the community life, got dirty. Citizens were subject to fines, if they threw in public spaces (i.e. streets) animal and human waste, or craftwork activities’. In particular, inscriptions from Athens an…

Profitis Ilias (Gortina). Nuovi dati e prospettive di ricerca

2015

Risultati delle ultime ricerche a Profitis Ilias (Gortina, Creta).

Gortina Agorà- Scavi 1996-1997

2011

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…

Nuovi dati sulla circolazione anforica a Gortina

2010

Gortina ed il commercio mediterraneo: le anfore da trasporto tra l’età di Augusto e la conquista araba

2004

The paper analyzes the trends of supply of amphorae in Roman and Early Byzantine Gortyn, and summarizes the data from the excavations of the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens