Isthmia:
A Virtual Reconstruction

Research for thesis project:
julie apley

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5. This is room II with the benches around the
entire room.

  Tim: Do you have an indication of wall surface (string-grooves)? I assume you will change blue and green in these rooms to something else, although these colors do point out the structural elements. Perhaps you will want to have two sets of reconstructions, one with "real" colors, and one that brings out the structural elements????  
  Fikret:  
  Jayni: Room II looks good for now. There is some string-groove incision on the plaster wall facing. I can send you pictures of how this looks if you need them.

  

 


6. This is the basin in the southwestern corner
of room I

  Tim: I do like the "human" scale, but you should replace Mr. Green with generic ancient people. I'm not sure what this basin is supposed to look like.  
  Fikret:  
  Jayni: The basin, of colored brown and yellowish marble, actually belongs to Room VI, but there might very well have been one here too. I just can't say for sure until I get through those marble piles. For now, let's put it somewhere in the northeast area of VI.  






 



7. I don't have any information about room VIII.
Do you have any suggestions?

  Tim: I agree about Room VIII: white mosaic floor and imitation marble walls *and* vaulting; a piece of the latter survives and shows what the vault would have looked like on the interior.  
  Fikret:  
 

Jayni: Fikret wants to put the Polydeukion heads in VIII now, so we can add them. They belonged probably to herms, pillar statues with heads on top. Any Greek sculpture book would have some of these - just crop off the head and scan in Polydeukion. Do you have a picture of him? He can be found in the Isthmia VI volume (cat. no. 1), or in the Hesperia journal, volume 64.3(1995) figure 56.a. Twin herms would flank - I'm guessing here - the doorway into VI. Alternatively, they would flank something i the southern apse, but I would think this would look too busy. Stick with a white mosaic floor and incised stucco walls.

  



 


8. On all of the openings in the Bath, I am
showing only the openings and not any doors.
Is there any evidence that there were doors?

  Tim: I agree about Room VIII: white mosaic floor and imitation marble walls *and* vaulting; a piece of the latter survives and shows what the vault would have looked like on the interior.  
  Fikret:  
  Jayni: I'd stay away from those except in bath entry ways (rooms I and XII). There is no evidence for doors that opened and shut in any of the thresholds as far as I can tell.  





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