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ought to light about 160 metres southwards from the “Walled
City”, in a land owned by Damtsa.
The proposal of archaeological restoration, the subject of the degree
thesis, has been updated and expanded in 2009 by architect
Vassiliki Eleftheriou, within the research program for the National
Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), approved by the Central
Archaeological Council in February 2010 and is actually under
realization.
The project provides the anastylosis of three columns of the portico,
with the corresponding parts of the crepis and of the entablature, of
the stoa of the agora dating back to the second century BC.
The plan proposal follows a methodological path ranging from the
historical-documentary and material-technological knowledge of
the monument to the choice of the most suitable and less invasive
kind of intervention.
Besides the study of the architectural, historical and structural aspects
of the monument, the accurate survey of the fragments found
out in the excavation area, helped understand particular building
expedients, which allowed, at least as to the crepis, the acknowledgement
of a specific disposition for the recovery of the blocks of
each row.
For the formulation and the drawing up of the project, the principles,
monument restoration is based on, were taken into account, such
as the completeness of the archaeological documentation, regarding
the morphological knowledge of the monument, the respect of the
original structure (art. 10 Charter of Venice), which is guaranteed
by the “dry-installation” of parts, and the utilization of compatible
materials. The selection of new materials (marble, inorganic mortar
to integrate missing parts and titanium) is supported by laboratory
evidence and the use of the same materials in other contests.
The planning choices concerned materials and building techniques
in order to realize the structural restoration and the settlement of the
excavation, which represents only a little part of the whole area of
the agora, the dimensions of which approximately had to amount
to 80 x 320 metres.
Before the revival works began, the excavation looked like a superposition
of elements belonging to several periods, the comprehension
of which turned out to be quite difficult.
The settlement, although carried out preserving the historical traces
of the different building stages of the agora, brought to the restoration
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