Anastasios Oulkeroglou’s scientific contributions

Colonia Iulia victrix Philippiensium was founded by Mark Antony after the battle of Philippi in 42 BC and was re-founded by Octavian as colonia Iulia Philippiensis, then Augusta, after the naval battle in Actium in 31 BC. Philippi was one of the most important stations along the Egnatia Road. During the Antonine period, in the second half of the 2nd c. AD, the city’s center was reconstructed in its most monumental form. The aqueduct for the water supply of the city has been dated to the same period. It is an open-channel aqueduct with a barrel vaulted cover that collected water from the Kefalari area (karstic springs of Voirani), about seven kilometers north-northwest of Philippi.

The city of Dion was founded in the NE foothills of mount Olympus next to a traditional religious centre, which evolved into the official religious centre of the Macedonian kingdom. After the turbulent period of the Roman Civil War, Colonia Iulia Augusta Diensis was founded during the reign of Augustus, probably in 30 BC. The city covered an area of approximately 40 hectares (Figure 1). Roman veterans were settled among the indigenous population.

This article concerns the bathing establishment excavated on the Yannopoulos property in the city of Thasos, its architectural particularities, the finds recovered, and its insertion in the urban environment. The twelve-room building, of rectangular plan, has three architectural phases. Two praefurnia, two hypocausts, and eight non-heated rooms have been distinguished. The study of this baths offers an occasion to present the totality of bathing establishments, public and private, identified on the island, in the city as well as outside. During our research it has become clear that the buildings on the neighbouring Yannopoulos and Vellios plots belong to a single complex. The dating of the installations confirms the use of baths at Thasos throughout the roman and protobyzantine periods.

Η ανασκαφή του οικόπεδου Γιαννόπουλου και τα λουτρικά συγκροτήματα στη Θάσο (3ος-6ος αι. μ. Χ.) Το άρθρο πραγματεύεται το λουτρικό συγκρότημα που ερευνήθηκε στο οικόπεδο Γιαννόπουλου στη Θάσο, τα κατασκευαστικά χαρακτηριστικά, τα ευρήματα και την ένταξή του στο αστικό περιβάλλον. Πρόκειται για ένα κτήριο ορθογώνιας κάτοψης, με 12 χώρους και τρεις οικοδομικές φάσεις. Αναγνωρί-στηκαν δύο praefurnia, δύο υπόκαυστοι και οκτώ μη-θερμαινόμενοι χώροι. Με αφορμή το λουτρό στο οικόπεδο Γιαννόπουλου, επιχειρείται μια παρουσίαση όλων των λουτρικών εγκαταστάσεων, δημόσιας και ιδιωτικής χρήσης, που έχουν εντοπιστεί στη Θάσο, εντός και εκτός του άστεως. Με βάση την έρευνά μας, διαπιστώθηκε ότι τα κτήρια στα γειτνιάζοντα οικόπεδα Γιαννόπουλου και Βέλλιου ανήκουν σε ένα ενιαίο λουτρικό οικοδόμημα. Η χρονολόγηση των εγκαταστάσεων επιβεβαιώνει τη χρήση λουτρών στη Θάσο καθ’ όλη τη διάρκεια της ρωμαϊκής και της πρωτοβυζαντινής εποχής.