Published by De Gruyter

Doliche Urban Excavations

Scientific consultation: Christof Berns, Margherita Facella, Kutalmış Görkay and Stephan Westphalen

ISSN: 2748-4971

e-ISSN 2748-498X

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The book series is dedicated to the results of fieldwork in the city of Doliche, located in modern Gaziantep, South-East Turkey. Founded in the Hellenistic period, Doliche became a regional urban centre in Roman times and continued to thrive in the Middle Ages. Today, Doliche offers the unique opportunity to study urbanism and urbanity in the region of ancient North Syria. In 2015, an international research project started to explore the site for the first time. The data retrieved in the project is presented and discussed in this series. Monographs and edited volumes deal with all aspects of the history and archaeology of Doliche. The scope of the series is interdisciplinary and includes a wide range of topics spanning from the study of single monuments and buildings, find assemblages, and scientific analyses to synoptic and comparative discussions of the larger historical and cultural framework. In doing so, the volumes of this series contribute significantly to the understanding of urban development, cultural milieu, and material culture of Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic North Syria.

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Book 2022

Exploring urbanism in ancient North Syria

Fieldwork in Doliche 2015–2020

Michael Blömer, Engelbert Winter

Volume 1 in this series

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This book accounts for the results of fieldwork in Doliche, located in Gaziantep, South East Turkey. Doliche was an important city of ancient North Syria which continued to thrive into the Middle Ages. For the first time, an international research project started to explore the site in 2015. The chapters collected in this volume discuss the main discoveries of the first seasons. It is divided in two parts. The first part considers the main excavation results, with a particular emphasis on a newly discovered early Christian basilica and its decoration. This section also contains the first comprehensive discussion of a newly discovered Roman Imperial hypogeum from the city necropolis. The chapters of the second part deal with the preliminary findings from an intra-urban intensive survey. Between 2017 and 2019, a significant portion of the city area has been investigated, and the results of the survey offer new insights in the spatial and chronological of the city. The chapters consider methodological questions, but also discuss artefact groups. In general, the results presented in this volume add to the knowledge of urbanism in Roman and Late antique North Syria.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747959
ISBN:: 9783110747959
ISBN:: 9783110744057
ISBN:: 9783110748109
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter