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
Venue: Greek
Archaeologists Union building
134 Ermou
str. Thiseio,
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
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) –
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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