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The Victory Monument of Augustus at Nicopolis: The Tropaeum of the Sea Battle of Actium comprises the first two volumes of a three-volume presentation of the Augustus Victory Monument.
The monument was a magnificent edifice, erected by the Roman Emperpr Octavian Augustus, in commemoration of his victory in the naval battle of Actium on September 2, 31 BC, over the united forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. The dramatic building, built on the hill where Augustus had set up his headquarters on the eve of the naval battle, marks a pivotal event in the history of the ancient world and combines the characteristics of a trophy and a place of worship.
The eight chapters of the first volume detail the history of events that took place in this area in 31 BC, the construction of the Monument and the modern research that took place, culminating in the systematic archaeological excavations of the decades 1990–2010, as well as the architecture of the entire building. Chapter 8 presents in detail the Latin dedicatory inscription.
The second volume contains six chapters (Chapters 9–14), continuing the numbering of the first volume. In these are presented the many thousands of finds that were scattered across the entire area of the Μonument and recovered during the excavations. These include coins, pottery, planting pots (supplemented by the description of the sacred garden that adorned the Monument), glass finds, architectural terracottas and stamped roof tiles, and the inscriptions.
Konstantinos L. Zachos is emeritus curator of Antiquities of the Greek Ministry of Culture. He served as President of the Scientific Committee of Dodona and as President of the Scientific Committee of Nicopolis, which were responsible for the conservation, restoration and promotion of the monuments of these two iconic sites. He established the new Archaeological Museums of Leucas, Nicopolis and Arta (ancient Ambracia), and the renovation of the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina, where he also curated a number of special exhibitions. He was awarded the Εuropa Nostra Award/European Union Award for Cultural Heritage for the restoration works on the monuments of Nicopolis.
FOREWORD BY THE STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION
PREFACE Konstantinos L. Zachos
CHAPTER 1 -- INTRODUCTION: THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE ACTIAN WAR, Konstantinos L. Zachos
CHAPTER 2 -- THE HISTORY OF RESEARCH ON THE VICTORY MONUMENT, Konstantinos L. Zachos & Anastasia Giovanopoulou
CHAPTER -- 3 THE LITERARY TESTIMONIA, Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos & Konstantinos L. Zachos
CHAPTER -- 4 THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE SACRED HILL OF APOLLO, Panagiotis Paschos
CHAPTER 5 -- THE RECENT EXCAVATIONS: METHODOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY AND BUILDING PHASES, Hara Kappa & Konstantinos L. Zachos
CHAPTER 6 -- THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MONUMENT, Christos Tsakoumis, Markos Despotidis, Konstantinos L. Zachos
CHAPTER 6 – APPENDIX I MULTIANALYTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MORTAR FROM THE MAIN RETAINING WALL, Yorgos Facorellis, Stamatis Boyatzis, Alexis Stefanis & Ioannis Karatassios
CHAPTER 6 – APPENDIX II DISJECTA MEMBRA, Μάρκος Δεσποτίδη
CHAPTER 7 -- THE DEDICATION INSCRIPTION, William M. Murray
CHAPTER 8 -- THE ROSTRATE FAÇADE, William M. Murray
CHAPTER 9 -- THE COINS FROM THE VICTORY MONUMENT OF AUGUSTUS, Katerini Liampi
CHAPTER 10 -- THE POTTERY, Paul Reynolds
CHAPTER 11 -- THE SACRED GARDEN OF THE MONUMENT, Evangelos A. Pavlidis & Paul Reynolds
CHAPTER 12 -- GLASS FINDS, Anastassios Ch. Antonaras
CHAPTER 13 -- ARCHITECTURAL TERRACOTTAS AND STAMPED ROOF TILES, Hara Kappa
CHAPTER 14 -- THE EPIGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE, Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos