Fieldwork on aerial discoveries in Attica and Rhodes. Part I. The Town plan of Classical Rhodes

John Bradford

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Fieldwork on aerial discoveries in Attica and Rhodes. Part I. The Town plan of Classical Rhodes

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This report gives a brief account of a field reconnaissance in the Levant during August and September 1955. Seven weeks were spent in ground-checking archaeological sites noticed on air photographs taken by the Royal Air Force over Greece and Rhodes during the Second World War, and later in Cyprus. Assisted by my wife, I was able in these few weeks to locate and to examine in detail a large number of archaeological features, as the consequence of having these photographs as a guide. I shall reserve for a future occasion the description of the results and discoveries from our work in Cyprus, which was based on (i) my study of some thousands of photographs which the Department of Lands and Surveys in Nicosia kindly made available, and (ii) ground-checks on foot in various parts of the island. A very helpful grant of £50 given by the Craven Committee in the University of Oxford contributed towards the cost of this short campaign in 1955. The work was in direct continuation of my field research in Mediterranean lands since 1945, with the emphasis extended for the moment to the eastern end. This was a planned sequel to discoveries which I had made years ago, and an opportunity to complete them with fieldwork on the ground had been long awaited.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 1-2 , April 1956 , pp. 57 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500060364 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1956

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^{page 57 note 1} Plate VI is reproduced by kind permission of the Air Ministry.

^{page 58 note 1} The text of my report to the International Classical Conference at Copenhagen in 1954 is expected to appear in the Acta in 1956.

^{page 58 note 2} The plan illustrating my present article contains a few additions resulting from my fieldwork in 1955.

^{page 58 note 3} The only new information was contained in the brief summaries, without town plans, in Praktika, 1951 (published 1952), pp. 224–45; and J.H.S., 1952, p. 106; 1953, p. 126.

^{page 60 note 1} Kondis, , Praktika, 1951, pp. 224 seq. (work in 1951–2)Google Scholar; ΣΓΜΒΟΛΗ ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΜΕΛΕΤΗΝ ΤΗΣ ΡϒΜΟΤΟΜΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΡΟΔΟϒ,, pp. 3–31 (Rhodes, 1954); Praktika, 1952 (published 1955), pp. 547—gi (work in 1952). In the following references I shall refer to these works by the date of publication. J.H.S. 1954, p. 165; 1955 (suppl.) p. 16 mentions only a few of the results.

^{page 61 note 1} Newton, , Travels and Discoveries in the Levant, 1865Google Scholar; Gabriel, La Cité de Rhodes 1310–1522, 2 vols., 1921–3; Maiuri, Rodi, 1921, and in Clara Rhodos, i, 1928; Inglieri, Carta Archcologica dell' Isola di Rodi, 1:50000, 1936. Short guide books have been written by Professor Karousos (1949) and R. Matton (2nd ed. 1954, well illustrated).

^{page 61 note 2} i.e. in connexion with flood-water which had collected in the lower town. Unfortunately the description by Diodorus of the siege of Rhodes in 305–4 B.C. by Demetrius, the ‘Stormer of Cities’, throws little light on the street plan.

^{page 64 note 1} This runs along the line marked ‘steep slope’ on fig. 1. A practical difficulty for those studying the town plan is the identification of the modern landmarks mentioned in archaeological reports; all the roads have been renamed in Greek. A popular guide-book which gives their names is on sale in the Museum at Rhodes. Cf.K.1954, p.16.

^{page 64 note 2} Little is known about the remains of this temple, for a report on the Italian excavations has not yet been published; architectural fragments are still lying in disorder. They also found walls to the south-east (K. 1955, p. 550). Nearby are three rock-cut nymphaea, about which little has been published.

^{page 64 note 3} K. 1952, p. 238 and fig. 17.

^{page 64 note 4} K. 1952, p. 243.

^{page 64 note 5} K. 1955, p. 553, pl. 1 and figs. 2–3.

^{page 64 note 6} Near the north end of N. 17, between North Epirus and Chimara (E. 9) streets.

^{page 64 note 7} K. (1955, p. 551) refers to another temple, to an unknown god, north-east of the Temple of Apollo. The whole complex of buildings was excavated and restored by the Italians, but only brief communications have been given (Laurenzi, Memorie, ii, 25). K.1954, p.5.

^{page 65 note 1} K. 1955, p. 552.

^{page 65 note 2} K. 1954, pp. 17–18; 1955, p. 572 and fig. 16.

^{page 65 note 3} Between Diagoridon Street (E. 11) and a steeply terraced field-bank (E. 13) on the line of the grid (fig. 1).

^{page 65 note 4} Some particulars can be found in K. 1955, pp. 551, 563–8.

^{page 65 note 5} This part of the grid was omitted from Mr. Kondis's reconstruction of it (K. 1954, pl. 11), for which he used as a topographical basis the British Town Plan which did not include the south end of Mount Smith.

^{page 66 note 1} K. 1955, pp. 575–9, figs. 19–21 and pl. 11, described extensive foundations of buildings of the first centuries A.D. recently excavated in the gardens of the Venetokleon, the Girls' High School.

^{page 66 note 2} Compare Rottier's engravings of 1826 reproduced in Zervos, S.G., Rhodes (Paris, 1921), figs, 445–8.Google Scholar

^{page 66 note 3} K. 1954, p.18.

^{page 66 note 4} K. 1955, pp. 573–4, figs. 17–18.

^{page 66 note 5} K. 1954, pl. 11, p. 5–13.

^{page 66 note 6} K. 1954, p. 19, note 2.

^{page 66 note 7} K. 1954, p. 20.

^{page 68 note 1} The precise intervals between these branches varied from 30 to 35 metres (K. 1954. p. 12, note 1). It should be noted (i) that on the east side of the main conduit only one corresponding branch was found, opposite the sixth from the north, (ii) the continuation of this main conduit farther south showed no branches.

^{page 68 note 2} K. 1952, pp. 225–33.

^{page 68 note 3} K. 1952, pp. 234–6 and fig. 9.

^{page 69 note 1} A discussion of the ‘Hippodamian’ style in planning is given in Ephemeris, 1955, pp. 255–67.

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