{"id":15982,"date":"2025-03-17T22:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/abdera\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:05:59","slug":"abdera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/abdera\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdera Urban Plan Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p class=\"p2\">The Abdera Urban Plan Project (AUPP) is currently one of a few number of CIG projects in northern Greece. It is a three-year <i>synergasia<\/i> (2024-2026) between the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Canadian Institute in Greece, co-directed by Deputy Director, Maria Chrysafi (Ephorate of Antiquities of Xanthi) and Dr. Maria Papaioannou (University of New Brunswick).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The scope of this investigation is to study the urban plan of one of the earliest and wealthiest Greek colonies founded in the 7<span class=\"s1\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span> century BC along the Thracian coast by using as a case study the \u201c<i>insula of houses<\/i>,\u201d the best-preserved housing block at the site. Previous studies of this <i>insula<\/i> included an architectural analysis of the remains of a Roman period peristyle house by Dr. Papaioannou (Archaeological Society of Athens and the 19<span class=\"s1\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span> Ephorate of Classical and Prehistoric Antiquities of Komotini, 2002), followed by a study permit in 2016 (Ephorate of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Antiquity of Xanthi and CIG) to conduct a topographical survey of the entire<i> insula<\/i> using TLS with collaborator Dr. Peter Dare (University of New Brunswick). These past initiatives sparked an interest in the study of the built environment and architectural phases of the <i>Insula of Houses <\/i>from Hellenistic to Roman times, its impact on urban identities<i>,<\/i> and<i> <\/i>the various political, social and economic networks that helped shape the town plan. In 2024 geophysical surveys conducted to a depth of 2.00m revealed the remains of well-defined houses, roads, street drains, and other<i> insulae<\/i> to the west and south. Excavations in 2025 will focus on locating the road boarding the \u201c<i>insula of houses\u201d<\/i> to the north, establishing the width of the south road at the southwest corner of the <i>insula<\/i>, confirming the size of the<i> insula<\/i> and exposing the north wall of the Roman peristyle house.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":964,"featured_media":15601,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15982","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}