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Philippi: the results of a geophysical survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

A. G. Poulter  and
P. Strange
A. G. Poulter
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
P. Strange
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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Abstract

In 1995, the authors carried out a geophysical survey (resistivity) within the lower part of the ancient city. This trial survey successfully identified buildings and streets (including the junction of the Via Egnatia with the ‘diagonal road’). It was confirmed that the city had been planned according to two different street-grids, one respecting the Via Egnatia and the other aligned upon the ‘diagonal road’. Included is a new plan of Philippi, taking into account the evidence provided by the latest excavations.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 93 , November 1998 , pp. 453 - 461
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1998

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1 We should here like to thank Professor G. Gounaris for his kind invitation and his help on site during the survey. The authors were assisted in the field by Mr D. Baxter, then an undergraduate student in the Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, and by Mr S. Provost (Université I, Paris) who provided bibliographical information and stimulating ideas on the site and its urban planning. Funding was provided for the programme by the sponsors listed in the report on Louloudies, published in this same volume.

2 Lemerle, P., Philippes et la Macédoine orientate à l'époque chrétienne et byzantine (Paris, 1945), pl. 1Google Scholar.

3 The plan, drawn in 1938, was first published as Pl. I by H. Ducoux and P. Lemerle, who noted that the aerial photographs taken by the Greek air force provided invaluable information, ‘L'acropole et l'enceinte haute de Philippes’, BCH 62 (1938), 4 n. 1CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The outline of one of the buildings (K5) is clearly visible as a crop mark in one of the published photographs, Lemerle (n. 2), pl. IIb (top right). Both are drawn with thin lines (unlike excavated structures), no doubt because they were identified only from the aerial photographs. It is fair to assume that the other building (G5) was visible in another aerial photograph which has not been published. Given the accuracy with which the outline of K5 was reproduced in Lemerle's plan, there is no reason to question the existence of G5. Note, however, a subsequent version of the city plan includes G5 but omits G5; Lazarides, D., Փίλιπποι – Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἁποικία (Athens, 1973)Google Scholar. Another, still more recent plan, which does sketch in the contours, also omits building K5 and the latest publication by Gounaris; Sève, M., ‘Une ville romaine en Grèce’, L'Espace grec. 150 ans des Fouilles de l'École française d'Athènes (Paris, 1996), 88Google Scholar.

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5 Gounaris, G., ‘Ανασκαφή Φιλίππων 1991–1992’, Egnatia, 3 (Thessaloniki, 1994), 259 fig. 2Google Scholar.

6 For a hypothetical division of the city into these two street-grids see M. Sève (n. 3).

7 However, see the geophysical report by Strange on Louloudies in this volume (pp. 361–5) for the limitations in the use of this technique.

8 On the city plan (FIG. 2) the full size of the survey area is shown but, since no meaningful result was obtained from the extra half-square on the east side of the area, only the two full squares are illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3.