Middle Byzantine Ceramics from Southwestern Paphlagonia
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Prof. Dr. Ergün Laflı Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Gülseren KAN ŞAHİN Sinop Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (Diğer hakemli uluslarası dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | Anatolia Antiqua | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 9782-3624 | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 05-2015 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 1 / 23 / 63–149 | DOI | – |
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| Özet |
| Southwestern Paphlagonia locates in the region around Hadrianoupolis and its chora, today’s Eskipazar in the Province of Karabük. Ceramic reports of Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman and Late Roman/Early Byzantine periods as well as unguentaria and lamps from southwestern Paphlagonia are already appeared in the previous issues of Anatolia Antiqua1 as well as elsewhere2 that are featuring the surface and excavated finds from the field seasons between 2005 and 2008 by a team of Dokuz Eylül University (DEU). This current report is the last one in this series and focuses on the Middle Byzantine period. Paphlagonia is the name of the province on the north-central Black Sea coastline of Asia Minor, situated between Bithynia and Pontus. Paphlagonia was a major source of timber during and after the Roman period, as it was rich in forestry3. It appeared as a separate province in the 4th cent. AD 4 (Map 1). Political geography of Paphlagonia during the Early Byzantine period is well known through the Συνέκδημος of Hierocles, as the Roman towns of Inner Paphlagonia survived since 2nd cent. into the 6th cent. AD and some new sites were added in 6th cent. AD 5. In 7th cent. Paphlagonia became part of the theme of Obsequium (or Opsikion) and, later, of the Bucellarian theme, before it was split off again to form a separate unit. A fundamental shift in the civic life of cities, changing the urban life across the entire region into the 7th cent. AD and beyond were occured6. In this period Paphlagonia became a theme, ie a military-civilian province of the Byzantine Empire. The territory of the theme Paphlagonia was corresponding roughly to the Late … |
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