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Paper abstract
The Southeast Gate of the Hellenistic city of New Halos.
- Reinder Reinders
- [Professor of Archaeology, Groningen Institute of Archaeology]
In co-operation with the 13th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities at Volos the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) excavated the Southeast Gate of New Halos in the period 1995-2005. The enceinte of the city contained the impressive Southeast Gate that openend onto the Sourpi plain and provided acces to the lower town. Two heavy towers flanked the gate, leaving a passageway of 6.5 m. Two massive walls join the towers´ rear to form the sides of a courtyard and two pairs of spur-walls narrow the gate entrance to 3.4 m, which could be closed by two doors. After the cities destruction in 260 BC the gate and its surroundings were inhabited. The gate was finally abandoned in 220 BC. The cause of this was probably a fire, as is suggested by burned artifacts in situ. In this contribution the structure of the gate will be discussed in comparison with other courtyard gates, as well as the chronology of the habitation and the function of the building after the destruction of the gate in 260 BC.
