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Urbanism and Architecture of Greek Town Pharos
Ivo Štambuk
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The author summarizes archaeological findings in the old town center of Stari Grad, which have been published in papers by Jasna Jeličić Radonić, Branko Kirigin and Vinko Tarbušković and Work report of Muzej Staroga Grada (Stari Grad Museum) in 2013. According to findings published so far it can be assumed where the streets, which were in equal distances in directions north - south and east - west, were located. In that way the size of residential block, whose layout was in the shape of square with side size of 1/8 of stade, was determined. According to the finding of a recessed entrance at the east rampart next to the Church of St John, it was concluded that the distance between the first street and the rampart had to be 12 m so that a recessed entrance could be built and that residential
blocks were not built next to a rampart but there was a narrow street between. The town was orthogonal, the same as Greek town Olynthus to which an equilateral triangle is written. Pharos had a floor plan dimension of 235 x 207 m, as shown in Map 7. There are three entrances from the east, two from the west, an honorary one from the north and maybe another one from the south. Archaeological
findings in the sea revealed that the dock for galleys was located to the west from the town, where the sea was deeper, while the shipyard was located to the north, at the opposite side from the bay. Hora plain lies to the east from the town, and it is regularly intersected by paths in intervals of three stadia to the north - south direction and five stadia to the east - west direction. The cemetery was to the west from the town and several Greek graves have been discovered there. The sea level was lower for 120 cm at the time of building Pharos in the 4th century BC, so the town wasn’t built on the peninsula because the areas of Tvrdalj square, Ploca, part of Šiberija and today’s park and square with Fish market were land. There are some discovered findings of building walls and a street to the south of the town. That confirms that the town had a suburb outside the town walls in the only area where the town could expand since there is the plain to the east and the cemetery to the west.
Ključne riječi
Pharos; Stari Grad; Hora - Stari Grad plain; equilateral triangle proportions; urbanism; architecture
Hrčak ID:
283807
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Datum izdavanja:
9.9.2022.
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