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The Acropolis Restoration News À ™ ª ∞ TheÀ™ª∞ Acropolis Restoration News À ¶ ¶ √ À¶¶√ 8 ñ July 2008 General view of the Acropolis from the southeast. Photo G. Paganis, January 2008 ª. Ioannidou, 2007-2008, progress of the Acropolis Anastelosis Works ª. Ioannidou, Conservation and Restoration of the Acropolis Monuments: interventions planned for the period 2009-2013 V. Eleutheriou, V. Manidakis, A. Vrouva, Restoration of the west side of the Parthenon. General programming of the work and proposals for intervention D. Mavromati, The use of orthophotography in the geometric documentation of the Parthenon E. Sioumpara, Inventorying the Scattered Members of the Acropolis D.N. Englezos, D. Moullou, Preservation of the Circuit Wall of the Acropolis: past and future F. Mallouchou-Tufano, News from the Acropolis F. Mallouchou-Tufano, Honouring the marble technicians of the Acropolis: the Gold Cross of the Order of the Phoinix to Nikos Skaris 2007-2008, progress of the Acropolis Anastelosis Works 3 Anastelosis on the Acropolis continued at vided by the 3rd Community Support Frame- was continued. During the second half of cessed by the rural and surveying engineer July 2008 the architect K. Karanasos submit- In the temple of Athena Nike, 13 restored ar- undiminished pace during the second half of work. 2007 the eight columns were reset in place Dionysia Mavromati. ted to ESMA the study for restoring the south chitectural blocks from course II (from the 2007 and the first half of the present year. and work began on resetting the entablature, Studies for structural restoration of the entab- wall of the Propylaia. On approval by the top) of the cella wall were reset, and fourteen The works, as is well known, are carried out In brief, the following works were carried out at the level of the architrave, under the super- lature of the west end of the north colonnade Committee, the study has been submitted to blocks of the epikranitis with their joining ele- by the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) on the monuments of the Acropolis Rock vision of the architect-archaeologist Lena were completed by the architect Rozalia the Central Archaeological Council, where it ments. Resetting of the restored blocks of the itself, a special Service of the Ministry of Cul- during the past year: Lambrinou, responsible for the relevant study Christodoulopoulou and the civil engineer is expected to be discussed at the next meet- architrave was begun, as also the column bases. ture, with the academic supervision of the and the civil engineer Antigoni Vrouva. Work Antigoni Vrouva, and for the entablature of ing. Works in the Propylaia continue to be Work continues on the structural restoration Committee for the Conservation of the Acro- In the Parthenon, structural restoration of the on the west end of the north colonnade was the Parthenon west façade by the architects under the direction of the architect Tasos of the members of the overlying layers (ceiling polis Monuments (ESMA); funding is pro- dismantled members of the north colonnade also initiated with the dismantling of the me- Vassiliki Eleutheriou and Vasso Manidaki Tanoulas. coffers, inter-beams, horizontal cornice blocks) topes. and the civil engineer Antigoni Vrouva. Both Specifically, from June 2007 to June 2008, studies have been approved by the ESMA, the structural restoration of 34 members (two and approval of the second study is awaited column capitals, four architrave blocks, five from the Central Archaeological Council of filling blocks, ten frieze blocks, seven cornice the Ministry of Culture. Work on the Par- blocks) was completed, and 24 members were thenon continues under the direction of the reset on the monument (six drums of the 4th architect Nikos Toganidis. column, four column capitals and fourteen ar- chitrave blocks). In the Propylaia, from July 2007 to date, work Six metopes, three filling blocks and one on restoring the monument has continued in triglyph were dismantled from the west end of accordance with the approved study of Tasos the north side. Their structural restoration Tanoulas and Maria Ioannidou. Specifically, was begun, and work proceeds on copying work continued on restoring the ceilings of the metopes to replace the originals on the the west hall and this has been completed with monument. the resetting of restored architectural mem- The Directorate of Topography, Photogram- bers of the superstructure, i.e. the beams, the metry and Land Register of the Ministry of inter-beam blocks and the coffered ceiling Culture made a photogrammetric survey of blocks. With the recent removal of the work- the entablature of the west end of the north stands from the areas of intervention, the cof- colonnade and the west façade of the Par- fered ceiling of the west hall is now visible to thenon. The orthophotomosaics were pro- visitors approaching along the central passage- The north colonnade of the Parthenon, in course of restoration, from the NW. Photo A. Kafourou, June 2008 way. Work continued also on restoring the The restored ceiling of the west hall of the central building of the Propylaia. Photo K. Karanasos, July 2008 members of the entablature and pediment of the east portico, specifically the blocks of the cornice, the tympanon, the raking cornice and the sima. Restoration of the east portico has reached the level of the frieze and the overlying members are expected to have been set in place by the end of 2008. In addition, in March 2008, conservation was carried out on the reinforced concrete floor of the Propylaia Pinakotheke, introduced in the stabilizing intervention of Anastasios Orlan- dos and Eustathios Stikas in 1955. The work comprised surface water-proofing of the slab, repairs to parts of the bearing elements and test- ing of the strength and homogeneity of the concrete. In April, 2008, work started on the infra- structure of the Justinian cistern of the Propy- laia, and it is continuing at present. This in- volves the repacement of the wooden floor and suitable reforming of the space, so that it Dismantling a metope from the western end of the The north colonnade of the Parthenon, in course Replacing an architrave block on the Parthenon can serve as a storeroom for the ceiling coffers Parthenon north colonnade. Photo A. Kafourou, of restoration, from the east. Photo L. Lambrinou, north colonnade. Photo L. Lambrinou, July 2008 that will not be used in the recent intervention. View from the south of the restored ceiling of the west hall of the Propylaia central building, with the May 2007 July 2008 For interventions planned for the future, in marble technicians responsible for the intervention. Photo T. Tanoulas, June 2008 Conservation and Restoration of the Acropolis Monuments: 5 Interventions planned for the period 2009-2013 as well as on the piers of the monument. the continuous works of surface conservation aslani, the production of copies in artificial The great restoration programme of the proach, including consultations with both of future programmes has been made on the Restoration of members of the columns has on all the monuments, headed by the chemical stone of the architectural sculpture removed Acropolis, initiated by the Acropolis Restora- local and international specialists and the basis of priorities, determined mainly by the also been completed, and casts have been engineer Evi Papakonstantinou-Zioti, the in- from the monuments, by the Cast Laboratory. tion Service (YSMA) in 2000, with the continuous development of contemporary structural problems of the monuments, in made of the figures of the original frieze for ventorying of scattered ancient members on Electro-mechanical support of the works scholarly supervision of the Committee for technical knowledge, together with a highly connection with already existing studies for replacing them on the monument in artificial the Acropolis rock, under the direction, since continues to be headed by the mechanical and Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments specialised personnel, are all practices estab- intervention, both approved and pending. A stone. Likewise completed is the study by the 2008, of Elizabet Sioumpara, the digitisation electrical engineer Spyros Oikonomopoulos, (ESMA), is expected to be completed in lished by the ESMA and they assure the high basic criterion for determining future inter- architects Kostas Mamalougas and Demos- and digital management of documentation of and the Accounting and Secretarial Offices of 2008. quality of work characteristic of these inter- ventions was the possibility of making use of thenes Giraud for the arrangement and set- the works of anastelosis and surface restora- the YSMA are headed by Panayiotis Kat- The YSMA, a special Service of the Ministry ventions. infrastructure and actions that had been in- ting of the column capitals. Work on the tem- tion of all the monuments by the Documenta- simichas and Hara Papanikolaou respectively. of Culture created by Presidential Decree 97 With the completion of the programmes in- stalled and carried out in previous years with ple of Athena Nike continues under the di- tion Office, headed by the archaeologist Fani of 1999, undertook at that time, with fund- augurated in 2000, a creative period in the Community funding. rection of the civil engineer Dionysia Micha- Mallouchou-Tufano, the conducting of the The commencement during this past year of ing from the 3rd Community Framework, to restoration of the Acropolis will come to an Planned in this framework for the period lopoulou. educational programmes by the YSMA Of- systematic attention to an additional monu- develop and carry out restoration interven- end, while another will begin. Programmed 2009-2013 are the following: fice of Education and Information, directed ment of the rock, the Acropolis Circuit Wall, tions on the Acropolis monuments. Full use for the coming years are interventions, the 1. Extension of interventions in areas of the Carried out during this same period were also by the architect-archaeologist Cornelia Hatzi- is considered to be of special importance.
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