Ancient Kelenderis, Asia Minor

2017

The article discusses a building complex including a Greek cruciform structure identified by geoelectric resistivity survey just north of Vezirkopru in the region known in antiquity as Pontos. The initial discovery by the Nerik Excavation Project was followed by intense systematic archaeological survey by the Danish project Where East meets West, and the article publishes the results of this field work. The structures in the Papaz Tarlasi can be conjecturally interpreted as parts of an early Christian complex dating to the second half of the 5th century AD and presumably associated with the cult of a local martyr. The finds and the finds distribution appears to suggest that the martyrion was associated with consumption and some habitation.

ULUSLARARASI AVCILAR KENT VE TARİH SEMPOZYUMU, 2022

Bu makale kapsamında, Küçükçekmece Göl Havzası içerisinde yer alan ve ortak özellikler gösteren üç bazilika hakkında stilistik, teknik ve litürjik özelliklerinin karşılaştırılmasına yer verilmiştir. Bölgede Yarımburgaz Mağarası ile başlayan yerleşim, konumuz Geç Antik Çağ’a gelindiğinde adeta bir dini yapılar merkezine dönüşmüş durumda olduğu düşünülmektedir. Kuzeyde Yarımburgaz Manastırı, doğuda Rhegion yerleşimi kalıntıları ve batıda Firuzköy Yarımadası Kazıları ile bu durum giderek netlik kazanmaktadır. MS 6. yüzyılda, Constantinopolis ve çevresinde hızlanan imar faaliyetlerinin etkisiyle bölgemizde yoğunlaşan dini yapı örneklerini incelerken, Anadolu ve Karadeniz’in kuzeyinde kalan merkezlerden örnekler de konunun kavranabilmesi amacıyla dahil edilmiştir. Within the scope of this article, a comparison of the stylistic, technical and liturgical features of three basilicas in the Küçükçekmece Lake Basin and showing common features is included. The settlement, which started with the Yarımburgaz Cave in the region, has almost turned into a possible religious center in the Late Antique period. The Yarımburgaz Monastery in the north of the lake, the ruins of the Rhegion city in the east and the Firuzköy peninsula Excavations in the west are examples that explain this situation. We will examine examples of religious buildings concentrated in our region in the 6th century AD, with the effect of accelerated construction activities in and around Constantinople. Then, we will look at the centers in Anatolia and the north of the Black Sea in order to understand the subject.

Anthropologie, 2009

BYZANTINOSLAVICA LXIX 2011, Supplementum 3, Ekphrasis: La représentation des monuments dans les littératures byzantine et byzantino-slaves Réalités et imaginaires, 179-192., 2011

Ce volume bénéficie du soutien financier de l'Académie des sciences de la République Tchèque (numéro du projet M300920901).

Placed inside one of the deep inlets indenting the Carian Coast, Iasos had two ports and based his ancient economy on olive oil and wine production, fishing and the manufacturing of columns made of local marble. Since the 4th century B.C. the city had a defensive wall circuit enclosing the peninsula and part of the mainland; this course was modified in the late antiquity with the inclusion of the north quarters. The ancient city experienced an initial moment of crisis with the agora’s porticoes fall in the 5th century: later, some habitations were built into north stoa, respecting the original alignments and conserving the pavement of the portico. In the 5th century, a new city begins to grow: the Christian polis; his first center seems an extra-mural basilica with necropolis placed near the eastern port. At the time this area seemed very vital: near the basilica the quadriporticus of a mausoleum of the 2nd century A.D. was transformed into a sawmill using the water of nearby aqueduct. Here were found many marble blocks, showing saw traces, abandoned over thick emery layers. The crosses scratched on the blocks attested that the people who worked here were Christians. Since the attestations of Iasian sawn marble began in the 6th century, it seems that tomb’s transformation take place at that time. The water powered stone saw used aqueduct water, so it is possible that both quarries and workshop were fiscal property. Besides, a sledge road between the quarry of Karaoğlan Deresi and the below port was found; in some parts it splits up into two tracks with different levels, in order to facilitate the passages of men, animals and handcarts. Between the end of the 5th century and the Justinian’s era two basilicas were built with reused materials in areas subject to transformation: one on the acropolis, one in the former agora. This last was transformed into a residential and productive area with furnaces; even if the porticoes were fallen, his monumental entrance, the dipylon, was still in use. The area of the temple stoas near the agora was subject to systematic spoliation during Byzantine period; the marble columns were smashed with sledgehammers and wedges to obtain new building material or lime. After the 7th century the coin circulation stopped and resumed in 9-10th centuries. Between 8th-11th centuries the acropolis and agora basilica were rebuilt in smaller shapes;around them two necropolis began to spread. In the 11th century the fortification system was renewed with the construction of the isthmus castle between the two ports; the castle had a ditch toward the former agora, now residential and productive area. After the construction of the castle the outer space was kept unbuilt. It seems that in the same period it was built the tower that closed the east jetty of the west harbor. In the late Byzantine period, near the east harbor was built the so-called “Lascarid church”. The fortification of the city continued in the 14th century with the building of the acropolis castle. The citadel, that included reused materials, had towers with various sections and without access from inside the castle, but only from the upper walkways. Some of the towers were fireplaces. In Iasos the Byzantine times seem to conclude with the excavation of mass graves for the inhumation of many individuals, maybe died in a plague; it cannot be a case that these were found around the Lascarid church, outside the city and near a port, from where usually this kind of diseases came.

https://shop.cisam.org/index.php?route=product/product&path=28_31&product_id=1044 The current study follows and expands on previous studies that, over the course of recent years, have reported on and interpreted results of fieldwork carried out at Küçükyalı. It also represents the introduction to my forthcoming monograph on the site and the Asian suburbs of Constantinople in Byzantine times. Work and research carried out at Küçükyalı are also based on team efforts by a research group established in 2016, this article and the studies presented in this volume represent the initial research outcomes of some of the group’s members, with a view toward a comprehensive final report on the excavations. The survey campaigns (2001–2004) were directed by the author with permission of the General Directorate for Museums and Antiquities (Ministry of Culture and Tourism); the excavation campaigns (2008–2010 and 2014–2017) followed the formula of “ortak kazı” under the direction of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums and the author. The author wishes to extend thanks to the institutions that have made field research at Küçükyalı possible: the Istanbul Development Agency (ISTKA), Koç University, Koç University- The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and Dumbarton Oaks. Post-excavation research was carried out by the author during a Stanley J. Seeger Visiting research Fellowship in Hellenic Studies (Princeton University) and a Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Research Fellowship (Athens).