Vortrag von Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka

29. November 2022, von Nikola Babucic

Foto: Wojtek Ostrowski

Am Dienstag, den 06. Dezember, hält Prof. Dr. hab. Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka (Krakau / Warschau) ihren Vortrag „Digging Paphos - the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Some results of MA-P project“. Der Vortrag beginnt um 18.15 Uhr als Hybridveranstaltung im Senatssitzungssaal (AS-Saal) im Hauptgebäude in der Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (ESA) und online via Zoom.

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Abstract

Polish archaeological research in ancient Nea Paphos city, the UNESCO world heritage site, is continuing from 1965.  Starting from 2019, the two Polish expeditions, i.e. of the UW PCMA and JU DCA have been joint. The new research project is implemented by this two institutions in cooperation with the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Hamburg.

The current project whose the full title is: “MA-P Maloutena and Agora in the layout of Paphos: Modelling the cityscape of the capital of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus”  started in 202O and focuses on the urban layout of the city with special emphasis on the Maloutena (where the Villa of Theseus, The „Hellenistic” House and the House of Aion are situated) and the Agora sites. The international and interdisciplinary project aims to reconstruct the 3D urban landscape of Paphos at different stages of its development using the latest modeling methods.

A milestone in the research on the topography and urban layout of Paphos were the findings of the Cypriot archaeologist, Kyriakos Nicolaou, and Polish scientist, Jolanta Młynarczyk. The latter working under the aegis of the UW PCMA, determined that Nea Paphos was founded on the Hippodamian urban plan (1990). The idea of new research on urban layout was born during the work on the first volume of the JU Paphos Agora Project (PAP, 2020) and the plan of the city. PAP's research on the Agora and beyond, and especially the results of the geophysical surveys, made by the University of Hamburg, added new findings and made it necessary to revise previous arrangements in the field of urban layout. A series of Trial Trenches have been done to check the streets layout and the width of insula. Some of the results will be presented during the lecture. Also, the preliminary results of the implementation of the Historic Building Information Modelling, procedural modelling and space syntax analysis for the 3D reconstruction of the city will be presented.