During the period of Italian occupation of the Dodecanese islands, the city of Kos, devastated by an earthquake in 1933, was almost entirely rebuilt according to a new Master plan. Apart from few photos of the period, we have a faithful image of the city before the earthquake only in a detailed map made in 1926 by the Italian Geographical Institute (I.G.M). Given the importance of the Hellenistic-Roman Kos - known from ancient sources and from the results of the German mission that had already discovered the suburban sanctuary of Asklepios, as well as from a large amount of epigraphic material – the master plan of the Itlian Kos included several archaeological parks, whose location and extension were determined on a careful prior survey conducted by Luciano Laurenzi, in that period director of the local Archaeological Service, depending on the head office of Rhodes. In the TAPA Archives of Dodecanese there are a number of Laurenzi’s notes and a map of the countless diggings he made between 1933 and 1934, when, in parallel with the removal of the ruins of the earthquake, extensive excavations of the areas considered archaeologically promising were carried out. Since then, studies on the ancient monuments of Kos have progressed and today the knowledge of the Hellenistic city has arrived to a considerable level of completeness. This paper aims to highlight the remarkable persistence of the alignments of the streets of the ancient city in the medieval and modern town before 1933, as they emerge overlapping the new survey of the architectural emergencies to the IGM map of 1926. The two overlapping drawings, if often confirms the hypothesis about the ancient town, in some cases may orienting the research to new solutions.

Durante il periodo di occupazione italiana delle isole del Dodecaneso, la città di Kos, devastata da un sisma nel 1933, venne quasi integralmente ricostruita sulla base di un nuovo piano regolatore. Della città prima del terremoto si ha un’immagine fedele nel rilievo I.G.M. del 1926, oltre che in poche foto d’epoca. Data l’importanza della Kos ellenistico-romana, nota dalle fonti antiche e dai risultati dalle ricerche di una missione tedesca che aveva già scoperto il santuario extraurbano di Asklepios, oltre che un ingente quantitativo di materiale epigrafico, il Piano previde diversi parchi archeologici, la cui localizzazione ed estensione vennero determinate sulla base di un attento survey preventivo effettuato da Luciano Laurenzi, allora direttore del Servizio Archeologico locale dipendente dall’Ufficio centrale di Rodi. Di questa ricerca rimangono all’Archivio del TAPA del Dodecaneso una serie di appunti di Laurenzi e una mappa degli innumerevoli saggi che effettuò tra il 1933 e il 1934, quando si mise mano, in parallelo con lo sgombero delle rovine del terremoto, a scavi estensivi delle aree giudicate archeologicamente più promettenti. Da allora gli studi sui monumenti antichi di Kos sono progrediti e oggi la conoscenza dell’impianto urbano della città ellenistica è approdata ad un livello di considerevole completezza. Il presente contributo vuole mettere in evidenza le notevoli persistenze degli allineamenti viarii della città antica nel tessuto della città medievale e moderna prima del 1933 così come emergono dalla sovrapposizione del nuovo rilievo delle emergenze architettoniche alla pianta IGM del 1926. I due disegni sovrapposti, se spesso confermano l’ipotesi di restituzione dell’impianto antico, in qualche caso potrebbero orientare la ricerca verso soluzione ancora inedite.

La pianta IGM di Kos del 1926: dati per la topografia antica / Livadiotti, Monica. - In: THIASOS. - ISSN 2279-7297. - 5:(2016), pp. 63-89.

La pianta IGM di Kos del 1926: dati per la topografia antica

LIVADIOTTI, Monica
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2016-01-01

Abstract

During the period of Italian occupation of the Dodecanese islands, the city of Kos, devastated by an earthquake in 1933, was almost entirely rebuilt according to a new Master plan. Apart from few photos of the period, we have a faithful image of the city before the earthquake only in a detailed map made in 1926 by the Italian Geographical Institute (I.G.M). Given the importance of the Hellenistic-Roman Kos - known from ancient sources and from the results of the German mission that had already discovered the suburban sanctuary of Asklepios, as well as from a large amount of epigraphic material – the master plan of the Itlian Kos included several archaeological parks, whose location and extension were determined on a careful prior survey conducted by Luciano Laurenzi, in that period director of the local Archaeological Service, depending on the head office of Rhodes. In the TAPA Archives of Dodecanese there are a number of Laurenzi’s notes and a map of the countless diggings he made between 1933 and 1934, when, in parallel with the removal of the ruins of the earthquake, extensive excavations of the areas considered archaeologically promising were carried out. Since then, studies on the ancient monuments of Kos have progressed and today the knowledge of the Hellenistic city has arrived to a considerable level of completeness. This paper aims to highlight the remarkable persistence of the alignments of the streets of the ancient city in the medieval and modern town before 1933, as they emerge overlapping the new survey of the architectural emergencies to the IGM map of 1926. The two overlapping drawings, if often confirms the hypothesis about the ancient town, in some cases may orienting the research to new solutions.
2016
La pianta IGM di Kos del 1926: dati per la topografia antica / Livadiotti, Monica. - In: THIASOS. - ISSN 2279-7297. - 5:(2016), pp. 63-89.
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