Jacopo Scoz
Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Graduate Student
University of Siena / Università di Siena, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Graduate Student
Scuola Archeologica Italiana Atene, Archeologia del Mediterraneo tardo-antico e bizantino, Post Graduate Student
First year PhD candidate at the National PhD in Heritage Science, Sapienza University of Rome. My research is based at the University of Siena.
Alumnus of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (SAIA).
My research interests comprise GIS applications in archaeology and the study of the Early Byzantine city from an anthropological and spatial perspective. Since 2018, I am supervisor for the graphic documentation of the excavation of the University of Siena at Vignale (Italy). Since 2019, I am co-supervisor for the same task at the Byzantine District of the Pythion in Gortyn (Crete). Since 2022 I participate in the SAIA research at the Eastern Harbour Basilica of Hephaistia (Limnos). Moreover, I am concerned with the communication of archaeology as founding member of the association Let’s Dig Again.
Dottorando presso il Dottorato Nazionale in Heritage Science, Sapienza Università di Roma. La sede della ricerca è l'Università di Siena.
Allievo 2022-23 presso la Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene (SAIA).
I miei interessi di ricerca comprendono le applicazioni dei GIS in archeologia e lo studio della città protobizantina in un’ottica antropologico-spaziale. Gestisco la documentazione grafica degli scavi dell’Università di Siena come responsabile presso Vignale (LI) dal 2018 e come co-responsabile presso il Quartiere Bizantino del Pythion di Gortina (Creta) dal 2019. Dal 2022 partecipo alle ricerche della SAIA presso la Basilica del porto orientale di Efestia (Lemno). Mi occupo di comunicazione dell’archeologia come socio fondatore dell’associazione Let’s Dig Again.
Alumnus of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (SAIA).
My research interests comprise GIS applications in archaeology and the study of the Early Byzantine city from an anthropological and spatial perspective. Since 2018, I am supervisor for the graphic documentation of the excavation of the University of Siena at Vignale (Italy). Since 2019, I am co-supervisor for the same task at the Byzantine District of the Pythion in Gortyn (Crete). Since 2022 I participate in the SAIA research at the Eastern Harbour Basilica of Hephaistia (Limnos). Moreover, I am concerned with the communication of archaeology as founding member of the association Let’s Dig Again.
Dottorando presso il Dottorato Nazionale in Heritage Science, Sapienza Università di Roma. La sede della ricerca è l'Università di Siena.
Allievo 2022-23 presso la Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene (SAIA).
I miei interessi di ricerca comprendono le applicazioni dei GIS in archeologia e lo studio della città protobizantina in un’ottica antropologico-spaziale. Gestisco la documentazione grafica degli scavi dell’Università di Siena come responsabile presso Vignale (LI) dal 2018 e come co-responsabile presso il Quartiere Bizantino del Pythion di Gortina (Creta) dal 2019. Dal 2022 partecipo alle ricerche della SAIA presso la Basilica del porto orientale di Efestia (Lemno). Mi occupo di comunicazione dell’archeologia come socio fondatore dell’associazione Let’s Dig Again.
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The Byzantine District of the Pythion in the city of Gortyn is analysed as a case study, both globally and diachronically, by applying these methodologies. The data obtained are closely connected to the archaeological evidence and have been organized in a GIS. Using this as a start, I propose a global and diachronic reading of the spatiality of the
settlement, all the while identifying patterns of change within the spatial and microeconomic organization of the settlement. Eventually, the results are put in context with the status quaestionis of Byzantine Gortyn and of the Byzantine city between the VII and the XI centuries.
of new data for the later phases of the temple. Consequently, it was possible to reassess the stratigraphic relations between the structures removed during that season of research, inside and outside the temple, and those brought to light in the Byzantine District. The team cleaned and documented both the sections of the nineteenth-twentieth-century excavation and the foundations of the demolished walls, making way for a more poignant interpretation of the later phases of the temple and the space in front of
it. Likewise, a new 3D photogrammetric survey by UAV allowed a first sketching of a plausible reconstruction of the volumetry of the buildings in the same phases.
Περίληψη. Οι αποστολές ανασκαφής και μελέτης 2019 και 2021 στον αρχαιολογικό χώρο της Βυζαντινής Συνοικίας του Πυθίου
στη Γόρτυνα της Κρήτης επέφεραν νέα στοιχεία για τον δυτικό τομέα της συνοικίας, δίπλα στο δάπεδο της εξωτερικής ζώνης του Πυθίου. Τα σημαντικότερα ευρήματα είναι ένα κτήριο που μπορεί να αναχθεί στον 7ο αι. μ.Χ., το επονομαζόμενο D, στο ίδιο επίπεδο με το ναό, το οποίο παρουσιάζει μια προβληματική χωροταξική και λειτουργική σχέση με τα κατάλοιπα τουλάχιστον δύο ταφών, και αυτές της βυζαντινής εποχής, που αναδύθηκαν στο ανατολικό δωμάτιό του, και με το κτήριο C, που είχε ήδη ερευνηθεί τα προηγούμενα έτη. Η ανάλυση της νέας εικόνας της συνοικίας συμπληρώνεται από δύο επίμετρα αφιερωμένα αντιστοίχως στην εφαρμογή της τρισδιάστατης SfM φωτογραμμετρίας για την αποτύπωση και την ανασύνθεση των αρχαιολογικών συγκροτημάτων χρησιμοποιώντας φωτογραφίες αρχείου και σε μια σύγκριση με τα συνευρήματα των νέων ταφών στο πλαίσιο των άλλων μαρτυριών της Γόρτυνας.
Abstract. During the 2019 and 2021 field seasons in the Byzantine District near the Pythion in Gortyn (Crete), archaeological data were acquired on the western sector, close to the paving of the external area of the shrine. The most important evidence is represented by a building, named D, which can be preliminarily dated to the VII sec. AD, but laying on the same level of the ancient temple. Building D shows a problematic relation with the remains of at least two burials, dating to the same period, which were brought to light in its easternmost room, and with the so-called building C, that was already investigated in previous years. The discussion about the new image of the district is accompanied by two appendices: the first one is dedicated to SFM photogrammetry of archival images and of RPA-acquired photographs for 3D reconstruction of archaeological features; in the second one, the just-discovered sepulchres are compared to similar evidences from Gortyn.
The archaeological evidences are impressive: thousand of pinges on the surface, tens of shafts and kilometers of galleries
underground, where the traces of the hand-made excavation are very clear (above all pick toolmarks). Since 2013 the Ecomuseo Argentario and the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) are carrying on a project called “Archaeology of the Mons Argentarius” in order to document and understand the medieval mining context and the miners life. The ancient mines were explored and measured and some charcoal samples were taken (C-14 analyses have revealed that they date back to the XI-XIII centuries). A detailed survey on the surface allowed to find some structures such as walls, buildings and channels. Upon agreement of the local Cultural Heritage Department (Soprintendenza ai Beni culturali della Provincia autonoma di Trento) a small excavation was made in 2015 that confirmed the archaeological potential of the area: dark layers containing charcoal, medieval pottery and smithing slags were found in the middle of the mining area.
The Byzantine District of the Pythion in the city of Gortyn is analysed as a case study, both globally and diachronically, by applying these methodologies. The data obtained are closely connected to the archaeological evidence and have been organized in a GIS. Using this as a start, I propose a global and diachronic reading of the spatiality of the
settlement, all the while identifying patterns of change within the spatial and microeconomic organization of the settlement. Eventually, the results are put in context with the status quaestionis of Byzantine Gortyn and of the Byzantine city between the VII and the XI centuries.
of new data for the later phases of the temple. Consequently, it was possible to reassess the stratigraphic relations between the structures removed during that season of research, inside and outside the temple, and those brought to light in the Byzantine District. The team cleaned and documented both the sections of the nineteenth-twentieth-century excavation and the foundations of the demolished walls, making way for a more poignant interpretation of the later phases of the temple and the space in front of
it. Likewise, a new 3D photogrammetric survey by UAV allowed a first sketching of a plausible reconstruction of the volumetry of the buildings in the same phases.
Περίληψη. Οι αποστολές ανασκαφής και μελέτης 2019 και 2021 στον αρχαιολογικό χώρο της Βυζαντινής Συνοικίας του Πυθίου
στη Γόρτυνα της Κρήτης επέφεραν νέα στοιχεία για τον δυτικό τομέα της συνοικίας, δίπλα στο δάπεδο της εξωτερικής ζώνης του Πυθίου. Τα σημαντικότερα ευρήματα είναι ένα κτήριο που μπορεί να αναχθεί στον 7ο αι. μ.Χ., το επονομαζόμενο D, στο ίδιο επίπεδο με το ναό, το οποίο παρουσιάζει μια προβληματική χωροταξική και λειτουργική σχέση με τα κατάλοιπα τουλάχιστον δύο ταφών, και αυτές της βυζαντινής εποχής, που αναδύθηκαν στο ανατολικό δωμάτιό του, και με το κτήριο C, που είχε ήδη ερευνηθεί τα προηγούμενα έτη. Η ανάλυση της νέας εικόνας της συνοικίας συμπληρώνεται από δύο επίμετρα αφιερωμένα αντιστοίχως στην εφαρμογή της τρισδιάστατης SfM φωτογραμμετρίας για την αποτύπωση και την ανασύνθεση των αρχαιολογικών συγκροτημάτων χρησιμοποιώντας φωτογραφίες αρχείου και σε μια σύγκριση με τα συνευρήματα των νέων ταφών στο πλαίσιο των άλλων μαρτυριών της Γόρτυνας.
Abstract. During the 2019 and 2021 field seasons in the Byzantine District near the Pythion in Gortyn (Crete), archaeological data were acquired on the western sector, close to the paving of the external area of the shrine. The most important evidence is represented by a building, named D, which can be preliminarily dated to the VII sec. AD, but laying on the same level of the ancient temple. Building D shows a problematic relation with the remains of at least two burials, dating to the same period, which were brought to light in its easternmost room, and with the so-called building C, that was already investigated in previous years. The discussion about the new image of the district is accompanied by two appendices: the first one is dedicated to SFM photogrammetry of archival images and of RPA-acquired photographs for 3D reconstruction of archaeological features; in the second one, the just-discovered sepulchres are compared to similar evidences from Gortyn.
The archaeological evidences are impressive: thousand of pinges on the surface, tens of shafts and kilometers of galleries
underground, where the traces of the hand-made excavation are very clear (above all pick toolmarks). Since 2013 the Ecomuseo Argentario and the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) are carrying on a project called “Archaeology of the Mons Argentarius” in order to document and understand the medieval mining context and the miners life. The ancient mines were explored and measured and some charcoal samples were taken (C-14 analyses have revealed that they date back to the XI-XIII centuries). A detailed survey on the surface allowed to find some structures such as walls, buildings and channels. Upon agreement of the local Cultural Heritage Department (Soprintendenza ai Beni culturali della Provincia autonoma di Trento) a small excavation was made in 2015 that confirmed the archaeological potential of the area: dark layers containing charcoal, medieval pottery and smithing slags were found in the middle of the mining area.