Anagrapheia and the Architecture of the New Grave

Extensive documentation of the ancient remains at Mt. Lykaion in Arkadia, Greece, has been conducted over the last ten years, and the state plan drawing—an encompassing analytical record of ruins on site—is nearly complete. The Sanctuary of Lykaion Zeus atop the mountain, a 5th century site of Pan-Hellenic importance and renowned for the Lykaion Games, consists of ten buildings and the only ancient Hippodrome still visible in Greece today. Much of the material on site has been moved, removed, destroyed, lost, or has on rare occasion been incorporated by local shepherds into vernacular constructions dating from the Byzantine era to present-day; Lykaion is incomplete. The preservation of the architectural character of the sanctuary is held hostage by this present uncertainty. in an effort to contend with a wildly incomplete site—as is common in the Peloponnesus—this thesis proposes a method of categorizing those sites for which a ‘reconstruction’ is generally considered canonical, and those sites for which there is not enough material to be so presumptuous. With the state plan drawing serving as the project’s scientific foundation, this thesis will address the uncertain nature of bui