Ministry of Culture: The southern gate of the Mycenaean acropolis and part of its cyclopean wall have been restored

The Ministry of Culture has completed a peculiarly important task for the extortion and enhancement of the Mycenaean acropolis successful Boeotia. According to an announcement by the ministry, the project, implemented by the competent Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, concerns the restoration of the Southern Gate and portion of the cyclopean partition of the acropolis, wrong the model of the wide program for the promotion of the monument.

The Mycenaean acropolis of Glas, dominating the northeastern borderline of the Kopais basin, is 1 of the astir important and extended fortified complexes of the Late Bronze Age. Its strategical location, with wide visibility implicit the plain and proximity to the bluish Euboean Gulf, contributed to its improvement during the 13th period BC arsenic a almighty administrative and economic-technical center, connected to large-scale drainage works successful the area.

The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, stated:

“The projects implemented by the Ministry of Culture astatine the Mycenaean acropolis began successful 2022, funded with €2.5 cardinal from the Recovery Fund. They are portion of a broader program to reconnect the Mycenaean acropolis with the earthy and taste scenery of Kopais and to item the monument arsenic a unified, functional, and visitable archaeological site, reconstructing its humanities identity. The completion of the restoration of the Southern Gate and portion of the cyclopean partition is simply a task of precocious technological and method value. The monument, unsocial successful standard and character, is present gaining greater legibility and safety, portion astatine the aforesaid time, the imaginable for further probe and presumption is being strengthened. The acquisition and expertise gained from this task represent a invaluable bequest for the broader absorption and restoration of Mycenaean heritage. Our extremity is the gradual and systematic enhancement of the Glas acropolis truthful that it becomes accessible and understandable to the public, arsenic it is simply a monument comparable to the large Mycenaean centers of the Peloponnese.”

According to the Ministry, the task was based connected a broad model of specialized studies approved by the Central Archaeological Council. The works included systematic documentation and absorption of scattered gathering material, structural appraisal and stabilization of the construction, arsenic good arsenic the reconstruction of the gross and adjacent partition sections utilizing compatible and documented materials. Special accent was placed connected the elaborate probe of cyclopean masonry and the archaeological survey of the foundations and halfway of the wall, elements that importantly contributed some to the knowing of the monument and the palmy implementation of the interventions. At the aforesaid time, extended clearing works restored the monument’s readability and the surrounding landscape, allowing the geomorphology of the islet to beryllium revealed and improving the visitant experience.