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Alice Waldner
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Department Member
- Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, Byzantine Archaeology, Pottery (Archaeology), Ephesos, Miletos, and 30 moreTroesmis, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Ceramics, Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Medieval, Pottery, Black Sea Region Archaeology, Romania, History of Construction, Byzantine, Roman Architecture, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies, Roman Archaeology, Survey Research, Late Roman and Early Byzantine Pottery, Roman Pottery, Amphorae (Archaeology), Roman Economy, Roman ceramics, Hellenistic Pottery, Byzantine Pottery, Late Roman Pottery, Cooking and Food Preparation (archaeology), History of Cooking and Food Culture, Wine and Olive Oil Production, Amphorae, Trade, Mediterranean archaeology, and Antic Technologyedit
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, History of Technology, Byzantine Studies, Digitisation Of Cultural Heritage, and 15 moreTechnologies Applied to Cultural Heritage, Byzantine Architecture, Byzantine Archaeology, Milling industry (Industrial Archaeology), Digital Cultural Heritage, Byzantine Numismatics, Provenance studies of archaeological material, Ephesos, Digitisation, Querns and Millstones, Rotary querns and millstones, Milling technology, Watermill, Medieval Hydraulics, Watermills, and Byzantine history and archaeology
Germia was a well-connected Byzantine polis in western-central Anatolia, famous for its healing waters and a church of St Michael. After three years of survey the site can now be reconstructed: it included several other churches and... more
Germia was a well-connected Byzantine polis in western-central Anatolia, famous for its healing waters and a church of St Michael. After three years of survey the site can now be reconstructed: it included several other churches and monasteries, but little space for ordinary residential buildings. This comes as a surprise, but can be explained by the discovery of two older Roman cities within walking-distance of Germia, where the ordinary people seem to have lived. One of these cities, Mantalos, was home to a local cult of the pagan god Men. This may explain why the Christian healing centre was established at Germia. Later, Mantalos shed its pagan legacy and was apparently renamed Eudoxias after a homonymous member of the Theodosian dynasty. No Roman or Byzantine settlement of the region has a history extending back beyond the Iron Age, when the population retreated to fortified hilltop settlements and many sizable Bronze Age höyüks were deserted. Settlement locations changed often and grew little in central Anatolia, and this may be blamed on the uniform landscape of the high plateau; it lacks the Mediterranean's diverse geography of ‘definite places’ that would favour one site above others and ensure its continuity and growth.
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Urbanitas. Veränderungen von Stadtbild und urbaner Lebenswelt in der Spätantike und frühbyzantinischen Zeit. Assos im Spiegel städtischer Zentren Westkleinasiens. 18.-20. November RGZM Mainz (Organisation Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan)
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The Southern Baths probably served as relatively simple thermae for a modest residential area. The baths were built at the turn of the second century A.D. (phase I). The main access seems to have been from the west through a vestibule,... more
The Southern Baths probably served as relatively simple thermae for a modest residential area. The baths were built at the turn of the second century A.D. (phase I). The main access seems to have been from the west through a vestibule, where coin finds probably attest to the payment of an entrance fee. The bather would then have followed a tour of at least four rooms, starting and ending in a changing room and including warm, hot and cold bathing rooms. Smaller additional rooms may have been used for various medicinal purposes. A first, late antique renovation took place in the later fourth century and appears to have been concerned primarily with strengthening the support system of the vaulting (phase II). A second, early Byzantine renovation around 500 A.D. included a new, higher floor level that responded to annual flooding due to the progressive siltation of the Maeander River (phase III). The Byzantine renovation also led to a new layout, whereby two warm bathing rooms were now closed off from each other and had separate entrances; this resulted in a double bath, probably for the simultaneous but separate bathing of men and women.