The canceled marbles: limekilns in Gortys

Authors

  • Claudia Lambrugo University of Milan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/1882

Keywords:

Limekiln, Gortys, Aptera, Spolia, Ruinae

Abstract

The limekiln which is the subject of this paper was found during the last excavation in Gortys (2010), conducted by the University of Milan in the so called “Terme Milano”, south of the Pretorio. The little limekiln, which probably dates between the end of the 6th century A.D. and the beginning of the 7th century A.D., was set after the great bath complex had collapsed for one of the strong earthquakes that struck Gortys in those times. As the sizes are modest, the kiln is suggested to be a periodic one, used for a short period, but in close connections with some new byzantine constructions and accomodations in the Pretorio area. The paper is also a reconsideration of the evidence on other limekilns in Gortys (in the theater of Pythion, in Byzantine Quarter ecc.) and in Crete (the great kiln in Aptera) at the end of the classical time.

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Author Biography

Claudia Lambrugo, University of Milan

Claudia Lambrugo is Adjunct Professor (until 2012) of Greek Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Milan, and former Lecturer in Greek Archaeology and History of Art from 2004 to 2008. At the same time she is scientific advisor for the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Milan, where she rearranged the Etruscan Antiquities Department (2003 and again 2011) and the Greek Antiquities Department (2008). Her fieldworks and researches focuse on analysis of Greek iconography especially applied to figure vase painting, on the nature of the necropolis evidence in Sicily and Magna Graecia in the archaic period (VIII-VI B.C.), on the study of material culture (archaic Greek ceramics of different types). She is member of excavations in Magna Graecia (Gravina in Puglia) and Gortys (Crete).

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Published

2012-01-17

Issue

No. 8 (2011)

Section

Gortys 2010: a Marble head of Hygieia from the Terme Milano, eds. G. Bejor and C. Lambrugo - Milan, January 25th 2011. 1