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Extensive Survey

• In brief

Intensive Survey

• Introduction

• Survey structure

  • Archaeological survey
  • Geophysical survey
  • Geoarchaeological survey
  • Study of rescue excavations
  • Anthropological survey

• 2004 annual report

  • In brief

• 2005 annual report

  • Introduction
  • Archaeological survey UP
  • Archaeological survey SP
  • Archaeological survey NP
  • Geophysical research
  • Geoarchaeological study
  • Anthropological study

• 2006 annual report

  • Introduction
  • Archaeological survey UP
  • Archaeological survey SP
  • Archaeological survey NP
  • Architectural survey
  • Geophysical research
  • Geoarchaeological study
  • Anthropological study

• 2007 annual report

  • Introduction
  • Archaeological survey UP
  • Archaeological survey SP
  • Archaeological survey NP
  • Geophysical research

• 2008 annual report

  • Introduction
  • Archaeological survey UP
  • Archaeological survey SP
  • Archaeological survey NP
  • Geophysical research

• 2009 annual report

  • Introduction
  • Study of the material
  • Topographical survey
  • Geophysical survey
  • Geoarchaeological study
  • Geochemical survey
• Participants
• Sponsors

Excavation

• Introduction

• Small Temple W of Agora

  • 2014 season
  • 2015 season
  • 2016 season
  • 2017 season

• Hellenistic Building

  • 2016 season
  • 2017 season

• West Stoa

  • 2016 season
  • 2017 season
  • 2018 season
  • 2019 season

• Northwest Complex

  • 2014 season
  • 2015 season
  • 2016 season
  • 2017 season

• Gymnasium

  • 2020 season

• South Stoa

  • Introduction
  • Room #13
  • Room #4

• Southeast Stoa

  • 2014 season
  • 2015 season

• Ceramic Workshops

  • 2013 season
  • 2014 season
  • 2015 season
  • 2016 season
  • 2017 season
• Architectural Documentation
• Excavation Material Analysis
• Conservation and Protection Studies

• Ceramic Reference Collection

  • Index
  • References
• Thematic Exhibition
• Participants
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Bibliography

Publications and M.A. theseis based on the research project

• Aslanoglou, Α. 2020: Σχεδιασμός και υλοποίηση ενός συστήματος ανασκαφικής τεκμηρίωσης σύμφωνα με το πρότυπο του CRMarcheao (M.A. thesis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens)
• Bartzis, D. 2015: Αρχαίο Στάδιο Σικυώνας (M.A. thesis, National Polytechnic School of Athens).
• Charno, M. 2007: "An Interactive Image Using SVG and Ajax in Archaeology," Internet Archaeology 23.
• Deltsou, E. 2009: "Researching Biographies of Archaeological Sites: The Case of Sikyon," Public Archaeology 8(2-3), 176-190.
• Derham, B., R. Doonan, Y. Lolos, A. Sarris, and R.E. Jones. 2013: "Integrating Geochemical Survey, Ethnogra­phy, and Organic Residue Analysis to Identify and Understand Areas of Foodstuff Processing," in S. Voutsaki and S. Valamoti (eds.), Diet, Economy, and Society in the Ancient Greek World: Toward a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science (Pharos Suppl. 1), Leuven-Paris-Walpole, 47-54.
• Dillon, N. 2016: A vision for the Sikyonian Plateau in Greece (M.Sc. thesis, KU Leuven).
• Gallimore, S. 2024: "A Possible Amphora Second at Sikyon, Greece" AJA128, 117-132.
• Gourley, B., Y. Lolos, and A. Sarris. 2008: "Application of Integrated Geophysical Prospection Techniques for Mapping Ancient Sikyon, Greece," in R. Lasaponara and N. Masini (eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International EARSeL Workshop on Advances on Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management, CNR, 1st ed., Rome, 169-173.
• Hayward, C.L. and Y. Lolos. 2015: "Building the Early Hellenistic Theatre at Sikyon," in R. Frederiksen, E.R. Gebhard, and A. Sokolicek (eds.), The Architecture of the Ancient Greek Theatre, Acts of Internation­al Conference at the Danish Institute at Athens 27-30 January 2012 (MoDIA 17), Aarhus, 161-176.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2005: "The Sanctuary of Titane and the City of Sikyon", BSA 100, 275-298.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2006: "Δημητριάς στη Θεσσαλία και την Πελοπόννησο: μια συγκριτική προσέγγιση" in A. Mazarakis-Ainian (ed.), Πρακτικά του 1ου Αρχαιολογικού Έργου Θεσσαλίας και Στερεάς Ελλάδας, Volos, 171-183.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2010a: "A Bronze Inscribed Tablet from the Sikyonian Countryside: a Reappraisal," in Gary Reger, F. X. Ryan, and Timothy F. Winters (eds.), Studies in Greek Epigraphy and History in Honor of Stephen V. Tracy, Bordeaux, 275-292.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2010b: "Η οινοπαραγωγή στην Κορινθία κατά την αρχαιότητα (Κόρινθος, Σικυών, Κλεωναί)," in Y. Pikoulas (ed.), Πολυστάφυλος Πελοπόννησος (ΟἶνονἹστορῶ IX), Athens, 115-132.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2011: Land of Sikyon: Archaeology and History of a Greek City-State (Hesperia Suppl. 39), Princeton.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2013: "Αρχαιολογική Έρευνα Επιφανείας στην Περιοχή της Σικυώνας," in K. Kissas and W.-D. Nie­meier (eds.), The Corinthia and the Northeast Peloponnese: Topography and History from Prehis­toric Times until the End of Antiquity (Athenaia Band 4), Munich, 469-478.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2015a: "L’architecture à Sicyone pendant la haute époque hellénistique," in J. des Courtils (ed.), L’architecture monumentale grecque au IIIe siècle a.c., Bordeaux, 51-82.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2015b: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνας," Prakt 168 (2013), 117-147.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2015c: "The Invisible Cultural Landscape: Remains of Settlements of the Ottoman Period in the Co­rinthian Countryside," in S.M.T. Shariat-Panahi (ed.), Ottoman Corinthia, Kiato, 99-110.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2016: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 169 (2014), 103-132.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2017a: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνας," Prakt 170 (2015), 139-180.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2017b: "Κορινθία και Αχαΐα," in Y. Saitas (ed.), Το Έργο της Γαλλικής Αποστολής του Μοριά, Vol. 2, Athens, 128-137.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2018: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνας," Prakt 171 (2016), 185-225.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2019: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνας," Prakt 172 (2017), 111-163.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2020: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνας," Prakt 173 (2018), 93-104.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2020: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνας," Prakt 174 (2019), 33-58.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2021: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνας," Prakt 175 (2020), 13-36.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2021: "Sikyon during the “interim period” and the Early Roman era:literary tradition and material record," Annuario 99, vol. I, 577-588.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2023a: "Water provisioning in a marine terrace environment: the cases of Corinth and Sikyon in the northeastern Peloponnese," in P. Klingborg (ed.), Going Against the Flow: Wells, Cisterns and Water in Ancient Greece, Stockholm, 55-75.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2023b: "The public center of Hellenistic and Roman Sikyon in context," in A. G. Vlachopoulos and A. Gadolou (eds.), The Ancient Greek City I: Domestic and Public Architecture in its Social and Political Context, Athens, 107-129.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2023c: "Surface Survey and Urban Archaeology," in M. Zarmakoupi (ed.), Looking at the City: Architectural and Archaeological Perspectives, Athens, 68-91.
• Lolos, Y.A. 2021: Sikyon Regional Survey GIS [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4635503
• Lolos, Y.A. and B. Gourley. 2012: "The Town Planning of Hellenistic Sikyon," AA 2011, 87-140.
• Lolos, Y.A., B. Gourley, and D. Stewart. 2007: "The Sikyon Survey Project: A Blueprint for Urban Survey?," JMA 20, 267-296.
• Lolos, Y.A. and Α. Sarris. 2011: "Η αγορά της Σικυώνος," in A. Yannikouri (ed.), Η αγορά στη Μεσόγειο από τους Ομηρικούς έως τους Ρωμαϊκούς χρόνους, Athens, 139-152.
• Lolos, Y.A., A. Sarris, B. Gourley, C.L. Hayward, C. Trainor, E. Kiriatzi, and N. Papadopoulos. 2012: "Surveying the Sikyonian Plateau: Integrated Approach to the Study of an Ancient Cityscape," in Proceedings of the 5th symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry, Athens, 305-326.
• Lolos, Y., D. Bartzis, M. Charno, B. Gourley, D. Grigoropoulos, C. L. Hayward, S. A. James, E. Kiriatzi, D. Lykoudi, M. Maher, I. Marathaki, M. Shariat Panahi, M. Risser, A. Sarris, D. R. Stewart, P. Stone, C. Trainor, E. Tzavella and I. Tzonou. 2021: Sikyon I: the Urban Survey [Meletemata 82], Athens.
• Lolos, Y.A., B. Gourley, D.R. Stewart, M. Charno and A. Sarris. 2021: Sikyon Survey Project Dissemination Data [Data set]. Zenodo http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1054450
• Lykoudi, D. 2013: Μελέτη ελληνιστικής και ρωμαϊκής κεραμεικής από σωστική ανασκαφή στην Αρχαία Σικυώνα (M.A. thesis, University of Thessaly, Volos).
• Sarris, A., N. Papadopoulos, V. Trigkas, E. Kokkinou, D. Alexakis, G. Kakoulaki, E. de Marco, E. Seferou, G. Shen, M. Karaoulis, K. Simirdanis, F. Kondili, M. Katifori, M. Dogan, Y. Lolos, and Th. Kalpaxis. 2008: "Re­covering the Urban Network of Ancient Sikyon Through Multi-component Geophysical Approach­es," in A. Posluschn, K. Lambers, and I. Herzog (eds.), Layers of Perception: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Berlin, Germany, April 2-6, 2007. Kolloquien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 10, Bonn, 11-16.
• Stewart, D. 2013: "Most Worth Remembering: Pausanias, Analogy, and Classical Archaeology," Hesperia 82, 231-261.
• Trainor, C.P. 2015: The Ceramic Industry of Roman Sikyon: A Technological Study, Uppsala.
• Trainor, C.P. and P.J. Stone 2015: "Winners, Losers, and Survivors of Roman Imperialism: A Case Study in the Northern Peloponnese," in W. Gauss, G. Klebinder-Gauss, and C. von Rüden (eds.), The Distribution of Technological Knowledge in the Production of Ancient Mediterranean Pottery, Vienna, 97-113.
• Trainor, C.P., D. Grigoropoulos, E. Tzavella, and M. Maher. 2018: "Roman Sikyon: Aspects of Urban Organization, Settlement and Economy," in V. Di Napoli, F. Camia, V. Evangelidis, D. Grigoropoulos, D. Rogers, S. Vlizos (eds.), What’s New in Roman Greece? Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period (ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 80), Athens, 65-77.
• Trainor, C.P. and P.J. Stone 2023: "Tales of two cities. Urban surveys of the Hellenistic and Roman cities of Sikyon and Knossos," in A. Meens, M. Nazou, W. van de Put (eds.), Fields, Sherds and Scholars: Recording and Interpreting Survey Ceramics, Leiden, 127-135.
• Tsirtsi, K., C. Pagnoux, V. Bonhomme, S. Ivorra, J.-F. Terral, E. Margaritis 2023: "Development of olive cultivation at the site of Sikyon, Greece: evidence from the charred olive remains from the late Classical/early Hellenistic to the Roman period," Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00943-z)
• Tzavella, E., C.P. Trainor, and M. Maher. 2014: "Late Roman Pottery from the Sikyon Survey Project: Local Production, Imports, and Urban Evolution (4th-7th c. A.D., Greece)," in N. Poulou-Papadimitriou, E. Nodarou, and V. Kilikoglou (eds.), LRCW 4: Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Am­phorae in the Mediterranean, Archaeology and Archaeometry (BAR-IS 2616(1)), Oxford, 91-102.
• Varela, Ch. 2019: Μελέτη της κεραμικής των ελληνιστικών και ρωμαϊκών χρόνων από σωστική ανασκαφή στην Αρχαία Σικυώνα (M.A. thesis, University of Thessaly, Volos).

Other publications

• Balla, F. 2010-2012: "Η Δημητριάδα της Πελοποννήσου και οι νομισματικές μαρτυρίες από την περίοδο της ίδρυσής της," Archaiognosia 16, 209-224.
• Balla, F. 2017: ΣΙΚΥΩΝ ΧΑΙΡΕ. Νεκροταφεία και έθιμα ταφής μιας πόλης της Πελοποννήσου από την εποχή των Ορθαγοριδών έως την έλευση των Ρωμαίων (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Athens).
• Balla, F. 2021: "Ταφικά αγγεία Ύστερης Κορινθιακής περιόδου από τη Σικυώνα," in V. Lambrinoudakis, L. Mendoni, M. Koutsoumpou, T. Panagou, A. Sfyroera, X. Charalambidou(eds.), Έξοχος άλλων: τιμητικός τόμος για την καθηγήτρια Εύα Σημαντώνη-Μπουρνιά, Athens, 513-526.
• Douché, C., K. Tsirtsi, E. Margaritis. 2021. "What’s new during the first millennium BCE in Greece? Archaeobotanical results from Olynthos and Sikyon," Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36, 1-12.
• Earle, M.L. 1889: "Excavations at the Theater of Sikyon: Supplementary Report of the Excavations," AJA 5, 286-292.
• Earle, M.L. 1891: "Supplementary Excavations at the Theatre in Sicyon in 1891," AJA 7, 281-282.
• Fiechter, W. 1931: Das Theater in Sikyon. Stuttgart.
• Fossum, A. 1905: "The Theatre at Sikyon," AJA 9, 263-276.
• Griffin, A. 1982: Sikyon, Oxford.
• Kazakidi, N. 2012: "Ένα οικογενειακό σύνταγμα ανδριάντων της εποχής του Κλαυδίου," in Th. Stefanidou-Tiveriou, P. Karanastasi, and D. Damaskos (eds.), Κλασική παράδοση και νεωτερικά στοιχεία στην πλαστική της ρωμαϊκής Ελλάδας, Thessaloniki, 193-211.
• Kazakidi, Ν. 2022: "Ένα πιθανό αυτοκρατορικό σύνταγμα αγαλμάτων Αδριανού και Ρώμης στη Σικυώνα," in D. Damaskos, P. Karanastasi, Th. Stefanidou-Tiveriou (eds.), Πλαστική στη ρωμαϊκή Ελλάδα: νέα ευρήματα και νέες έρευνες, Διεθνές Συνέδριο Ρωμαϊκής Αρχαιολογίας, Αθήνα, Νοέμβριος 2019 , Thessaloniki, 135-147.
• Krystalli-Votsi, K. 1988: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1984, 239-240.
• Krystalli-Votsi, K. 1991a: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1987, 66-68.
• Krystalli-Votsi, K. 1991b: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1988, 30-31.
• Krystalli-Votsi, K. and E. Østby. 2010: "The Temples of Apollo at Sikyon," in Bolletino di Archeologia on line, volume special: Congresso di Archeologia A.I.A.C. 2008, 54-62. www.archeologia.beniculturali.it/ pages/pubblicazioni.html.
• Orlandos, A. 1933: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1932, 63-76.
• Orlandos, A. 1934a: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1933, 81-90.
• Orlandos, A. 1934b: "La fontaine de Sicyone," AJA 38, 153-157.
• Orlandos, A. 1935a: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1934, 116-122.
• Orlandos, A. 1935b: "Εργασίαι αναστηλώσεως βυζαντινών μνημείων," Αρχείον των Βυζαντινών Μνημείων της Ελλάδος 1, 197-208.
• Orlandos, A. 1936: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1935, 73-83.
• Orlandos, A. 1938: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος του 1937," Prakt 1937, 94-96.
• Orlandos, A. 1939: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1938, 120-123.
• Orlandos, A. 1940: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1939, 100-102.
• Orlandos, A. 1947: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος 1941," Prakt 1941, 56-60.
• Orlandos, A. 1952: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1951, 187-191.
• Orlandos, A. 1955: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1952, 387-395.
• Orlandos, A. 1956: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1953, 184-190.
• Orlandos, A. 1957: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," Prakt 1954, 219-231.
• Orlandos, A. 1969: "Συμπληρωματική έρευνα εις την βασιλική της Σικυώνος," Αρχείον των Βυζαντινών Μνημείων της Ελλάδος 11, 148-176.
• Orlandos, A. 1971: "Η βασιλική της κάτω Σικυώνος," Αρχείον Κορινθιακών Μελετών 1, 46-55.
• Pharaklas, N. 1971: Σικυωνία. Athens.
• Philadelpheus, Α. 1926a: "Note sur le Bouleuterion (?) de Sicyone", BCH 50, 174-182.
• Philadelpheus, A. 1926b: "Ανασκαφή Σικυώνος," ArchDelt 10, 46-50.
• Skalet, C.H. 1928: Ancient Sicyon, with a Prosopographia Sicyonia, Baltimore.
• Sourlas, D. 2002: Το βαλανείο της Σικυώνας. Κριτική αποτίμηση της επέμβασης Ορλάνδου 1935-1939 (Μ.A. thesis, University of Athens).
• Warren, J.A.W. 1983: "The Autonomous Bronze Coinage of Sicyon, Part 1," NC 143, 23-56.
• Warren, J.A.W. 1984: "The Autonomous Bronze Coinage of Sicyon, Part 2," NC 144, 1-24.
• Warren, J.A.W. 1998: "Updating (and Downdating) the Autonomous Bronze Coinage of Sikyon," in R. Ashton and S. Hurter (eds.), Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop Price, London, 347-361.
• Warren, J.A.W. 1999: "More on the ‘New Landscape’ in the Late Hellenistic Coinage of the Peloponnese," in M. Amandry and S. Hurter (eds.), Travaux de numismatique grecque offerts à Georges Le Rider, Lon­don, 375-393.
• Warren, J.A.W. 2007: The Bronze Coinage of the Achaian Koinon: The Currency of a Federal Ideal (Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 42), London.