The So-Called “Loutro” at Thelpousa, Arcadia
Preliminary Report on the 2024 Field Season
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https://doi.org/10.12797//SAAC.29.2025.29.02Keywords:
Arcadia, Roman Greece, Roman urbanism and architecture, ThelpousaAbstract
This paper presents the preliminary results of the first field season of a joint Polish-Greek-German excavation project in the western Arcadian polis of Thelpousa. The focus is a rectangular Roman-period building at the centre of the city’s agora, which has remained unpublished despite its well-preserved masonry. The project aims to clarify the architecture, chronology and function of the building in order to shed new light on urban development within the small towns of the hinterland of Roman Greece.
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