The Survey of Thisve study season 2012
Assessment and Analysis: Study season
Dunn reports on the 2012 study season and palaeoenvironmental survey of the Thisbe basin, conducted in collaboration with the 23rd EBA. Over six seasons (2005–8, 2011–12) the monumental topography of pre-Classical to Late Roman Thisbe/ Byzantine-Frankish Kastorion has been recorded in its entirety, including six phases of fortifications, two rock-cut necropoleis, the remains of thirteen Byzantine churches and chapels, and other post-Roman building foundations. Architectural surveys using a 3-D laser scanner were completed at 11 monuments, and geophysical surveys in and around four. Post-Byzantine chapels and monumental post-Byzantine lênoi for wine fermentation were also recorded, plus two Ottoman fiscal threshing-floor complexes. Integration of data obtained in the Ohio State University’s partial study of Thisbe’s natural harbour in the Bay of Domvraina with evidence from Byzantine and post-Byzantine texts and Early Modern travellers’. 24 accounts resulted in discoveries including a Classical to Hellenistic watchtower situated to overlook two loci of maritime traffic.
Active in 2012.
Dunn, Dr Archibald W.