Transformations of the urban landscape of thessaloniki from the 4th to the 9th century at the intersection of the decumanus maximus with the cardo of venizelou street (excavation at venizelou station – Thessaloniki metro)

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Published: Aug 4, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.26178
Keywords:
Late Antiquity Early Byzantine period urban architecture urban planning tetrapylon Venizelou Metro Station Thessaloniki.
Κρινώ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΙΔΗ (Krino KONSTANTINIDOU)
Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City
Μαρία ΜΙΖΑ (Maria MIZA)
Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City
Abstract
The transformations of the urban fabric of Thessalonike at the intersection of the decumanus maximus with the cardo of Venizelou street are revealed through the evidence from excavations conducted at the Venizelou station, within the framework of the construction of the metropolitan railway. In the 4th century a monumental tetrapylon was constructed at the intersection of the marble-paved streets, whereas during the urban replanning of the 6th century, south of the expanded decumanus maximus, a rectangular marble-paved plaza was formed, surrounded by porticoes. Gradually, insulae of the city’s central market (8th-9th centuries) developed on both sides of the then gravel-paved horizontal street, the Mese or Leophoros of Byzantine times.
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