Workshop on Amorium and Middle Byzantine Thematic capitals at Athens, 25-26 Nov 2016

International Workshop

ΑΜΟΡΙΟΝ – AMORIUM – عمورية:
A BYZANTINE PROVINCIAL CAPITAL IN THE SETTING OF THE EMPIRE


An international workshop organized by the:
Amorium Urban Archaeology Project
INSTITUTE OF MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES / FORTH

and funded by STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION

 Friday 25th and Saturday 26th, November 2016, 

Venue: Greek Archaeologists Union building
134 Ermou str. Thiseio, Athens, Greece

The city of Amorium, located in Phrygia in the highlands of Asia Minor, has been under excavation and systematic research for almost three decades. A large number of scientific publications, articles in peer-reviewed journals, and a special series dedicated to Amorium, the “Amorium Reports” that number already five volumes, have seen the light as the main research products of this archaeological activity along with considerable amount of popularizing guide books. The impact of Amorium excavation has affected considerably the contemporary archaeological approach to Byzantine Early Medieval and Middle Byzantine cities.

Amorium has also been the stage of international cooperation for many years, and in this way it continues to bring together scholars from Turkey with colleagues from across the world. Many of our historical questions though are still in an early stage, seeking for answers that the continuation of the excavation and new research will provide. At the same time innovative archaeological methods (e.g. geophysical survey, satellite imagery, LIDAR modelling) and modern approaches are being applied at Amorium, making the project one of the pioneers in the field of Byzantine archaeology.

Aim of this workshop is to bring together the members of Amorium Excavations team to confer on the most recent field work and state of research. At the same time, we hope to further establish a dialogue about Amorium with other scholars of Byzantium that face similar historical and archaeological questions. In the center of such a discourse stand the challenges of Byzantine historical archaeology and our understanding of the period between the 7th and 11th c. AD, and the evolution of Byzantine urbanism with the formation of “new” or renewed urban centers as provincial capitals, this largely being the essence of the new thematic system. A process evident in the field, but also underlined in the historical sources. In result in our two-day thematic workshop all kind of questions on material culture, architecture, landscape archaeology, textual history and many more concerning the Middle Byzantine cities will be addressed.
All presentations and discussion will be in English.

Convenor: Nikos Tsivikis, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno / Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz


List of Participants and presentation titles. Analytical program to be announced soon.



AMORIUM EXCAVATION TEAM MEMBERS

UK / USA
1.     Chris Lightfoot (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) –  Epigraphy at Amorium

2.     Eric Ivison (College of Staten Island / CUNY, New York) – The Lower City Church Complex at Amorium during the Byzantine Early Mediaeval Period (7th-9th centuries)


Turkey
3.     Zeliha Gökalp-Demirel (Anadolu Üniversitesi, Eskişehir) – The Future and Challenges of Amorium Excavation

4.     Ceren Erel (Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara) – Excavation at the Upper City Church at Amorium

5.     Hasan Yılmazyaşar (Anadolu Üniversitesi, Eskişehir) – Acropolis Fortification and the Donjon of Amorium

6.     F. Arzu Demirel (Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi, Burdur) – People of Amorium: Anthropological analysis of the human skeletal remains

7.     Oğuz Kocyigit (Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, Çanakkale) – The Enclosure Byzantine Bath at Amorium and Byzantine Βaths in Central Anatolia

Greece
8.     Nikos Tsivikis (Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno – Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz) – Excavation at the Large Building of Amorium

9.     Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens) – The Correspondents of Amorium

10.  Kostas Roussos (Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno) – Tracing Landscape Dynamics in the Periphery of Amorium

11.  Jamieson Donati, Tuna Kalayci, Apostolos Sarris and Nikos Tsivikis (Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno) – The IMS/FORTH Amorium Urban Archaeology Side Project: First Results

12.  Thanasis Sotiriou (University of Crete) – A Corpus of the Greek Sources on Amorium: a first assessment

Germany
13.  Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz) – The Middle Byzantine Pottery Workshop of Amorium

14.  Petra Linscheid (University of Bonn) – Middle Byzantine Amorium - The Evidence of the Textiles



NON AMORIUM EXCAVATION TEAM MEMBERS:

HISTORICAL QUESTIONS:

15.  Yannis Stouraitis (Academy of Sciences, Vienna) - Inverting the image of defeat: The fall of Amorium in Byzantine historical memory

16.  Marie-France Auzépy (Université Paris VIII) – Iconoclasm in the Hagiographic Dossier of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium

17.  Koray Durak (Bogazici Üniversitesi, Istanbul) – Amorium and Byzantine cities in the early medieval Islamic sources

18.  Hesham M. Hassan (Hellenic American University, Athens) – Amorium in Arabobyzantine Sources: A Comparative Study


OTHER PROVINCIAL CAPITALS:

19.  Demetris Athanasoulis (Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades) – Corinth. The evolution from a provincial to a thematic capital (Hellas and Peloponnese)

20.  Enrico Zanini (University of Siena) –  Gortyn in Crete: the urban trajectory of a Early Byzantine provincial capital (archaeological indicators for a changing urban reality)

21.  Paul Arthur (University of Salento) – ‘Capitals’ of Byzantine southern Italy: Syracuse, Naples, Otranto and Bari

22.  Vujadin Ivanišević and Ivan Bugarski (Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade) – Morava and the Problem of Byzantine Thematic Capital on the Balkan Frontier

23.  Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University, Ankara) and Nikolas Bakirtzis (The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia) – When a capital went missing: The changing urban and military landscape of Medieval Cyprus

24.  Elisabetta Giorgi (University of Siena) – Water supplying a changing Mediterranean city: the transformation of Gortyn water system in Early Byzantine times


For additional information contact the organizer:
Nikos Tsivikis, email: ntsivikis@ims.forth.gr

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