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ARCHEOLOGY AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY:
THE SITE OF LAODICEIA AD LYCUM (TURKEY)
dott. Francesco Guerra
Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia
Centro Interdipartimentale di Rilievo, Cartografia ed Elaborazione (CIRCE)
Commission V, Working Group 4,
Key Words: K006 Archeology, K061 Design, K122 DEM/DTM, K176 Close Range, K235 Test
ABSTRACT
The Laboratory of Photogrammetry of the Centro Interdipartimentale di Rilievo Cartografia e Elaborazione has been commissioned
two years ago by the Dipartimento di Scienze Storico-Archeologiche e Orientalistiche to survey the archeological site of Laodiceia
on the left bank of the Lycum river, next to the modern city of Denizli (Turkey).
The site of the city of Laodiceia is a heap of stones with no enclosure, totally abandoned on a hilly area large 150 hectares.
The city reveals many ruins (an acqeduct, a gymnasium, a stadium, two theaters, ...) which have been explored very superficially.
The Istituto di Archeologia of the Università di Venezia has set in motion an extended program for a deeper knowledge of the city.
The program contemplates a detailed survey of this huge archeological site forseeing two main issues:
- a comprehensive analysis of the territory through a detailed D.T.M. for a correct location of the main buildings and the remains still
underground;
- the measured drawing of some of the most significant architectural elements for the purpose of dating the various historical layers
corresponding to the vaste range of archeological stratification.
The Photogrammetrical Section of the Centro Interdipartimentale
di Rilievo, Cartografia ed Elaborazione dati (CIRCE), has a
cooperated since 1994 with the Università degli Studi di Ca'
Foscari in Venice for the survey of the archeological site of the of
ancient city of Laodiceia.
Funded by a Seleucidae king (probably Antiochus II) between
261 and 253 B.C., the city of Laodiceia in ancient times was of
great importance and its most prosperous period was probably in
Roman times in the second century A.D.; there is large written
evidence as emperor Hadrian visited the city, Cicero was its gov-
ernor, Strabo mentioned the quality of its wool production and
Saint John quoted the city in the Apocalypse.
Severely damaged by earthquakes, this city has never been studied.
LAODICEIA
AD LYCUM
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In the period 1961-1963 an expedition of the Laval University of
Quebec, Canada, has undertaken an excavation campaign of a
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