Harbours of Byzantium : The Archaeology of Coastal Infrastructures

by: Ginalis, A.

Harbours of Byzantium
The Archaeology of Coastal Infrastructures
Edited by Alkiviadis Ginalis

Beyond general approaches to the study of Byzantine harbour archaeology, contributions in this volume offer a representative picture of harbour activities across the historical and geographical boundaries of the Byzantine Empire, providing the basis for future comparative research on a local, regional, and supra-regional level.

Harbours of Byzantium analyses physical harbour remains and their impact on the general development of architecture, economy and maritime connectivity in the Byzantine East. By focusing particularly on the archaeology of coastal sites, including the harbour infrastructures themselves, as well as associated facilities and affected landscapes, the individual contributions offer a representative picture of harbour activities across the Byzantine Empire geographically and chronologically. The papers set out to cover sites from every province, from Italy in the west to the Levantine coast in the east, and the Black Sea in the north to Egypt in the south. They present new material and data with which to understand the development of harbour networks in relation to maritime landscapes, and thereby provide a general overview of various aspects of Byzantine coastal life and a basis for future comparative research in Byzantine harbour studies — on a local, regional, and supra-regional level.

Contents
Editor?s Preface

1. Byzantine Imperial policy towards the building and maintaining of ports in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 6th century AD and the technology involved – Ruthy Gertwagen

2. Was Roman marine concrete used in Byzantine harbour construction? An unanswered question – Robert L. Hohlfelder

3. Ports, harbours, and landings of the Byzantine Terra d?Otranto – Paul Arthur

4. The Late Antique and Byzantine port of Thessalian Thebes: The archaeology of its coastal infrastructures – Alkiviadis Ginalis and Anna Gialouri

5. The port facilities of Thessaloniki up to the Byzantine era – Marina Leivadioti

6. Remarks on the urban transformations of the harbours of the north Aegean coastline during the early Christian era as well as on their links with the road network – Flora Karagianni

7. An interdisciplinary approach to the study of the ancient harbour site of ?Karon limen? or ?Portus Caria/Carea?, Bulgaria – Preslav Peev, Alkiviadis Ginalis, Bogdan Prodanov, and Grigori Simeonov

8. Bathonea (?): A newly discovered ancient port in the hinterland of Byzantion/Constantinople – Şengül G. Aydingün

9. A Late Antique and Byzantine harbour in Constantinople: The Theodosian harbour at Yenikapı – history, archaeology, and architecture – Ayşe Ercan-Kydonakis

10. Between Yavneh-Yam and Rhinocorura: The Byzantine portals of the southern Levant – Gil Gambash

11. The harbour installations of Lake Mariout (Alexandria region) in the Late Roman Empire (4th - 7th centuries AD) – Valérie Pichot

Harbours of Byzantium : The Archaeology of Coastal Infrastructures

by: Ginalis, A.

• ISBN-13: 9781803278131 / 978-1-80327-813-1
• ISBN-03: 1803278137 / 1-80327-813-7
• Archaeopress, Oxford, 2024