Harbours of Byzantium

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

About the Author

Alkiviadis Ginalis is a Byzantine Maritime Archaeologist who specialises in seafaring and harbour studies of the Late Antique and medieval periods. He obtained his BA and MA in Byzantine Studies and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and his PhD at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology of Oxford University. After a Marie-Curie Fellowship with a European Union funded research project on ‘Aegean Port networks of the Roman to Byzantine periods’, he held a Research Fellowship at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. Currently he works as a Research Lecturer for Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Head of the Archives at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute.