Selinunt, Italien. Die Arbeiten der Jahre 2017 und 2018

The excavation report on the research activities in Selinunte in 2017 and 2018 contains reports on new excavations in the northeastern section of the Agora, where a burial site of the first generation of settlers had been transformed during the Archaic period into a sacred space remembering the predecessors, a new project aiming the investigation of the 5th century BC temples A and O on the acropolis and their transformation until the early medieval ages and new natural science based studies. They took place on the acropolis as well and have been analyzing the plasterwork of cisterns of some buildings of the Punic period (mid 4th–mid 3rd centuries BC)

Selinunt, Italien. Selinunt. Die Arbeiten des Jahres 2019

The report contains the results of various research and excavation activities of the DAI Rome and its cooperation partners in Selinunt from the year 2019. The third and final campaign took place in the Agora, work continued on temples A and O, floor examinations were carried out in various houses on the Acropolis, a new DFG project was started in the east port, and in the Baglio Florio of the Parco Archeologico di Selinunte at the end of the year an exhibition on the long-term research of the DAI Rome was inaugurated on the Agora

Using a Multi-Proxy Approach to Detect and Date a Buried part of the Hellenistic City Wall of Ainos (NW Turkey)

Throughout mankind’s history, the need to secure and protect the home settlement was an essential one. This holds especially true for the city of Ainos (modern Enez) in Turkish Thrace. Due to its continuous settlement history since the 7th/6th century BC, several different types of city walls were built—sometimes even on top of each other—several of which have been preserved over time. To decipher the construction style, the course and the age of a buried city wall segment in the southern part of the former city, a geoscientific multi-proxy approach including magnetic gradiometer (MG) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements in combination with granulometrical, sedimentological and microfaunistical investigations on sediment cores was applied. We were able to (1) present reasonable arguments for its Hellenistic age; (2) reveal the course of this wall segment and extrapolate it further north into a less studied area; and (3) demonstrate that in this near-coastal area, the former swampy terrain had been consolidated for constructing the wall. Our multi-proxy approach serves as a valuable example for investigating buried structures in archaeological contexts, avoiding a less-economical, time-consuming, or even forbidden excavation

Die Thrakische hafenstadt Ainos: ergebnisse eines interdisziplinären forschungsprojektes

This article summarizes the results of a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the umbrella of the SPP 1630 from 2012 to 2018. During the field campaigns archaeological, architectural, geoarchaeological and geophysical investigations were carried out. The research focus was on the topographical and economic development of Ainos in antiquity, especially during the Roman Imperial era, as well as during the Byzantine period. New findings were obtained regarding the development of the town and the localisation of possible harbour sites. It became clear that the Roman Imperial era in Ainos is not, as long assumed, to be considered as an epoch of decline. The landscape changes, esp. the sedimentation caused by the southwestward advancing delta of the Hebros, did not lead to restrictions regarding landing sites until the early Byzantine period.Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaf