H 290 x W 205 mm
298 pages
252 figures, 3 tables (colour throughout)
Published Jan 2025
ISBN
Paperback: 9781803279190
Digital: 9781803279206
Keywords
Harbour Studies; Ancient Ports; Seafaring; Byzantium; Byzantine Archaeology; Maritime Networks; Maritime Connectivity; Maritime and Underwater Archaeology; Coastal Landscapes; Late Antiquity; Aegean; Shipwreck Archaeology; Thessaly; Sporades; Island Archaeology; Seascapes; Eastern Mediterranean; Villa Maritima; Port city
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A comprehensive study of Aegean harbours and maritime connectivity, focusing on both major and local infrastructures. It provides a framework for interpreting coastal facilities and examines the Byzantine East's port networks. Thessaly serves as a case study, with diverse maritime landscapes and activities from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
Preface
I. Introduction
The purpose and methodology of this study – State of research
The chronological and geographical framework
II. The Understanding and Interpretation of Harbour Sites
Introduction
Function, purpose and hierarchy of coastal installations
Characteristics and elements of harbour structures
III. The Coastal Sites of Thessaly
Introduction
The western coast of the Pagasetic Gulf
The Pelion peninsula
Aghia
The Pineios river delta
The Northern Sporades
IV. Conclusions: Byzantine Ports – Tradition or Innovation
The history of Thessaly’s coastal sites
The harbour architecture from the Early to the Late Byzantine periods
Port network and the hierarchy of coastal installations
Bibliography
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.