RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION WORK
The restoration and conservation work at Tripolis is arranged as two components of fieldwork and laboratory work. The fieldwork mainly covered the restoration and conservation of architecture whereas the lab work covered the small finds.
At the excavation area, according to the new principles of conservation set up for Tripolis excavations, the walls of the west pastophorion of the Early Byzantine Church 2 and walls within rooms were raised in stages for a certain level. Furthermore, the columns uncovered in the Colonnaded Street and the Orpheus Fountain were restored as anastylosis. The mosaics uncovered in the south portico of the Colonnaded Street were also restored and conserved. The building elements of the stairway ascending eastward uncovered in the Alley 1 were placed in their original positions. The single extant pier of the so-called Philadelphia Gate of six-pier design was restored and strengthened. In addition, the frescoes on the south wall of the Early Byzantine Church 4 were first surface cleaned and then consolidated. In order to prevent them from falling off injection was made and a border was added.
The laboratory work covered the conservation and restoration of the objects in the excavation storehouse according to their urgency of need. Terra cotta, glass, copper alloys, iron objects were conserved and restored according to their materials and deterioration levels after their photographic documentation and reporting were completed. (Fig. 1) (Fig. 2) (Fig. 3) (Fig. 4) (Fig. 5)