The Martyrdom of Konon (BHG 2077): the construction of a realm of memory

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Philipp Pilhofer
Keyword(s):  
Late Antique ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Taurus Mountains ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Regional Population

Abstract This article focuses on a local martyr from a village close to Isaura in the Taurus mountains: Konon of Bidana. The Martyrdom of Konon is a late antique Greek hagiographical text centred on this rural saint, and, in particular, its inter-connection of space and time is analysed. Through the employment of this literary strategy, the region around Bidana is used as a backdrop to a realm of memory. The epigraphical and archaeological remains show that the regional population respected Konon as their local patron.

Two New Byzantine Churches in Cilicia

1982 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Edwardś
Keyword(s):  
Field Survey ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The South ◽  
Taurus Mountains ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
General Field

The Byzantine churches of Cilicia have attracted considerable attention during the last 80 years. Often scholars have focused on the urban centres of Cilicia Pedias, the coastal settlements of Cilicia Trachea, and the monasteries near the important roads. However, the Taurus mountains, those lofty barriers which surround the fertile plain, have been ignored by most modern investigators. In the late antique world Greek communities found protection and sustenance in the isolated Highlands. While not as wealthy or numerous as their more urbane cousins to the south, these Cilician Greeks also have left behind monuments of their worship.In the summer of 1979 I was fortunate to locate and survey in the Highlands two Byzantine churches which hitherto had not been published. The study of these buildings was part of a more general field survey of classical and medieval sites. Since no excavations were undertaken all descriptions and surveys are based on surface remains. The purpose of this paper is to describe the location, masonry and plan of each church and to offer rudimentary conclusions based on a comparison with the known Cilician churches.

The Archaeology of Monastic Households

2020 ◽  
pp. 184-203
Author(s):  
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
Keyword(s):  
Household Archaeology ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Monastic Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complex Households

This chapter explores the buildings and artefacts of late antique monastic sites in Egypt and Palestine. It uses household archaeology to examine the daily behaviours of those who lived in monastic settlements. Household archaeology combines methodologies from archaeology, anthropology, geography, and history. Its application enables us to read the archaeology of monasticism with greater sophistication, so that the artefacts and the places of ordinary life can be interpreted alongside other sources, such as liturgy, images, and texts. Archaeological remains offer an additional lens for reading monastic settlements as complex households or homesteads, and they permit us to write a more nuanced history of monastic life.

The Absence of Evidence as the Evidence of Absence

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Ross Shepard Kraemer
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
History Of ◽  
Absence Of Evidence ◽  
Evidence Of Absence ◽  
Late Roman

Evidence for Jews in the late antique Mediterranean diaspora declines precipitously from the fourth to the seventh centuries CE. No identifiable writings in Greek or Latin survive from late antique Jews, forcing reliance on late Roman laws, accounts in non-Jewish authors, and limited archaeological remains. This increasing absence of evidence ultimately seems to be actual evidence of increasing absence. The category “diaspora”—in opposition to the homeland of Israel—has practical and theoretical limitations and is implicated in debates about contemporary Jewish identifications. Still, a study devoted almost exclusively to Jews of the late ancient Mediterranean is warranted by virtue of prior neglect, a history of privileging rabbinic sources, and a related tendency to assimilate the history of all Jews in late antiquity into that of the rabbis. The study tries to avoid the derogatory terms “pagan” and “heretics,” preferring the admittedly more cumbersome “dissident Christians” and “practitioners of (other) traditional Mediterranean religions.”

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PILGRIMAGE: ABU MINA AND BEYOND

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-327
Author(s):  
Susanne Bangert
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Simple Pattern ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Popular Piety ◽  
Insight Into

Christian pilgrimage offers a unique insight into popular piety in Late Antiquity. However, our sources for pilgrimage, both literary and archaeological, vary widely in quality and volume, and modern scholarship has often depended heavily on the evidence from particular wellknown sites, most notably the sanctuary of St Menas at Abu Mina in Egypt. This site has revealed a remarkable density of archaeological remains, not only buildings but also the production and circulation of a wide variety of pilgrim souvenirs. Yet it is essential that we move beyond the sanctuary of St Menas and compare the evidence from Abu Mina with that from other major pilgrimage sites in the eastern Mediterranean. As we shall see in this paper, there is no simple pattern in organisation or souvenir production that can be identified in the archaeology of late antique pilgrimage.

Results of a survey conducted in the area of the Jiyeh Marina Resort hotel complex in the 2012 season

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 491-503
Author(s):  
Zofia Kowarska ◽  
Szymon Lenarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Region ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
The North ◽  
Area North ◽  
Resort Hotel ◽  
Excavation Area

In 2012, an initial reconnaissance was conducted of the area north of the Jiyeh (Porphyreon) site. This coastal region is heavily urbanized and progressing building investment is causing the destruction of archaeological remains, which until quite recently were relatively well preserved in places. Subsequent investments involved the expansion of the Jiyeh Marina Resort hotel complex into terrain lying to the north of the Polish excavation area. Earlier construction work connected to the hotel complex was carried out in an area originally occupied by a pottery workshop from the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods, as well as at the site of a Roman– late antique necropolis. Further construction work, conducted without archaeological supervision, revealed more ancient structures which were in all probability connected with wine production.

ARCHAEOLOGY AND LATE ANTIQUE SOCIAL STRUCTURES

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-56
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Sodini
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Near East ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
The Social

The archaeological remains of late antique sites can be interpreted in terms of what they can tell us about ancient social structures. This is more straightforward when examining the social structures of the upper classes, who possessed the attributes that allow them to be recognised as such. These attributes occur on a Mediterranean-wide basis and include lavishly decorated residences (in both urban and rural environments), monumental funerary structures within churches, splendid garments, precious table wares and implements, and the insignia of rank in the form of jewellery such as gold brooches, fibulae, or belt buckles. The middle class is also traceable in the cities (mostly in the form of craftsmen) and in the countryside, where small landowners and peasants could share similar lifestyles, marked in some regions (such as the Near East and Asia Minor) by conspicuous levels of wealth. However, the lives of these middle classes could change abruptly, casting them into poverty and consequently making them difficult to trace archaeologically. Nonetheless, judicious interpretation of the material remains in tandem with the evidence of documentary and epigraphic sources allows us to make some suggestions as to the social structures of Late Antiquity.

scholarly journals MEMBANDINGKAN CATATAN PERJALANAN PELANCONG DAN NISAN KUNO KERAJAAN PERLAK, ACEH TIMUR, ACEH

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ambo Asse Ajis
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South China ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Marco Polo

The 11th century AD Armenian text entitled A Journals of the South China Sea refers to the tofonim Peureulak  by the name Poure (Armenian) as a rich and valuable port. Marco Polo (1293 / late 13th century AD) was called Ferlec (Portuguese), which was a settlement with an Islamic population that was regularly visited by Islamic traders. The Negarakertagama manuscript of the 14th century AD mentions the name Parllak (Javanese) as one of the vassals of the Majapahit Kingdom. Likewise local texts, especially Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai, mention that the existence of the Peureulak  Kingdom ended when it merged into the power of the Samudera Pasai Kingdom (1297 AD) through the process of marriage. This paper aims to see whether the records of the above improvements have the support of archaeological remains, especially the pre-Pasai Ocean era. The research method is descriptive by comparing information with the existence of archaeological remains of two pieces of data that have the same space and time dimensions, namely the rise of the pre-13th century AD and archaeological remains in the form of ancient pre-Samudera Pasai tombstones. The final conclusion is that the results of the comparison of space and time dimensions show that there is a synchronization that confirms the record that saw the Muslim population in Peureulak  before the establishment of the kingdom of Samudera Pasai, which is one of the earliest Islamic cities in Southeast Asia. Teks berbahasa Armenia abad ke-11 Masehi berjudul Suatu Catatan Perjalanan di laut Cina Selatan menyebut toponim Peureulak dengan nama Poure (bahasa Armenia) sebagai pelabuhan yang kaya dan berharga. Marco Polo (1293/akhir abad ke-13 M) menyebutnya Ferlec (bahasa Portugis) yakni sebuah lokasi permukiman berpenduduk Islam yang rutin disinggahi pedagang Islam. Naskah Negarakertagama abad 14 menyebut nama Parllak (bahasa Jawa) sebagai salah satu vasal Kerajaan Majapahit. Demikian juga naskah lokal, khususnya Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai menyebut eksistensi Kerajaan Peureulak  berakhir ketika melebur ke dalam kekuasaan Kerajaan Samudera Pasai (1297 M) melalui proses pernikahan. Tulisan ini bertujuan ingin melihat apakah catatan para pelancong di atas memiliki dukungan tinggalan arkeologis khususnya era sebelum Samudera Pasai. Metode penelitian bersifat deskriptif dengan cara melakukan komparasi informasi dengan keberadaan tinggalan arkeologis dua buah data yang memiliki kedudukan dimensi ruang dan waktu yang sama, yakni catatan pelancong abad sebelum abad 13 dan tinggalan arkeologis berupa nisan-nisan kuno era sebelum Samudera Pasai. Kesimpulan akhirnya bahwa dari hasil perbandingan dimensi ruang dan waktu menunjukan ada singkronisasi membenarkan catatan para pelancong melihat adanya penduduk Islam di Peureulak  sebelum berdirinya kerajaan Samudera Pasai, yakni satu kota paling awal yang terislamisasi di Asia Tenggara.

THE FATE OF THE TEMPLES IN LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 389-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitse H.F. Dijkstra
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Sacred Landscape ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Detailed Picture

As elsewhere the fate of the temples in late antique Egypt has often been perceived through the lens of the (Christian) literary works, which tell dramatic stories of the destruction of temples and their conversion into churches. When one looks at the other types of sources available from Egypt—inscriptions, papyri and archaeological remains—however, it becomes abundantly clear that the story of what happened to the temples was usually much less dramatic. This article argues that, in order to get a more reliable and complex picture of the fate of the temples, it is best to study them within a local or regional context and from a variety of sources, especially material remains since they can provide the most detailed picture of a whole range of methods of reuse, if the building was reused at all. A case study (of the First Cataract region, Southern Egypt) confirms that violence against temples and their reuse as churches were indeed exceptional and but two aspects in the complex process of the changing sacred landscape of Late Antiquity.

Languages in Space and Time

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Patriarca ◽  
Els Heinsalu ◽  
Jean Leó Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Space And Time
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