Monday, March 15, 2010

Director Visits Amorium

From March 8 to 13 Chris Lightfoot was at Amorium to supervise work to restore the overturned containers. He was ably assisted by site guard Selahattin Arıözsoy and workman Şerafettin Çetinkaya. The visit also provided an opportunity to draw up plans and preparations for future excavation work and additional improvements to the Project facilities.

SATURDay, March 6, 2010

The Amorium Turkish website is here!

Check it out - the only British excavation in Turkey with a fully bilingual website - a fitting way to mark the day dedicated to the Forty-Two Martyrs of Amorium.

With special thanks to Matthew Noiseux.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

The 2009 Excavation, Research, and Conservation Report is now available in Turkish.

Click here.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Strong winds batter Amorium

On Monday, February 15, sustained high winds managed to blow over the container block that had been installed near the Lower City Church as work and accommodation units in 2008. No damage to the Byzantine ruins, excavation trenches, or village buildings has been reported. Fortunately, no-one was near the container block when it collapsed. Arrangements are now being made to carry out repairs.

Click here for Before and After photos. Recent photos kindly supplied by Mr Mevlüt Üyümez, Director of the Afyonkarahisar Museum.

 

Friday, February 5, 2010

CUNY Graduate Center Lecture Series

Spring 2010 (March 1―April 13)

"Byzantine Archaeology: New Approaches, New Discoveries"

Moderated by Amorium team member, Eric Ivison, Professor of History at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

For details, click here.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Yakında Amorium websitemiz Türkçe de olacaktır

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Byzantium : Splendour and Everyday Life

The exhibition at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 26 February–13 June, 2010, will be accompanied by a volume that includes five articles in German illustrating various aspects of life at Amorium in Byzantine times.

Soon to be published: F. Daim / J. Drauschke (Hrsg.), Byzanz – Das Römerreich im Mittelalter.
Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 84 (Mainz 2010).

For exhibition details, click here.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Chris Lightfoot to give lecture on Amorium to colleagues at the Met

For details, click here.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Olga Karagiorgou gives lecture at Oxford

For details, click here.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Upcoming Conferences

The 13th Mediaeval and Turkish Period Excavations and Art History Research Symposium

To be held at the Pamukkale University Congress and Culture Centre, Denizli, 14–16 October, 2009. Speakers to include team members Murat Şen and Oğuz Koçyiğit.

Symposium on Byzantine Cities

To be held at the University of Crete, Rethymno, 18–20 October, 2009. Papers to include “Occupation of the 7th–9th Centuries below the Enclosure at Amorium” by team member Eric Ivison. For abstract, click here.

Centre and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos Conference

To be held at the Centre for Hellenic Traditions, Central European University, Budapest, 12–14 November, 2009. Papers to include “Amorium: A Thematic Capital at the Time of Constantine VII and its Archaeological Remains” by Chris Lightfoot. See http://www.hellenic.hu/. For abstract, click here.

New Amorium Article in Minerva

Chris Lightfoot, “The Siege of Amorium: History's Tragedy; Archaeology's Triumph,” Minerva 20/5 (September/October 2009), 27-29.

 

 

Monday, June 1, 2009

Amorium Team Members in Denizli


Chris Lightfoot and Murat Şen were joined in Denizli for the 31st Annual Archaeological Symposium by Oğuz Koçyiğit and Hüseyin Yaman. Also in attendance to hear the Amorıum presentation on Thursday, May 28 was this year’s representative Gülay Şahin and new team member Güven Deniz Apaydın. Special thanks go to Bahadır Duman and Barış Yener, who took us on a special tour of Laodiceia on Friday, May 29.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Olga Karagiorgou and Nikos Tsivikes to give papers on Amorium

Olga Karagiorgou and Nikos Tsivikes will give papers on Amorium at:

The Symposium of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Archaeology and Art

May 15, 16, and 17, 2009, organised by the Christian Archaeological Society at the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens

For the full programme (in Greek only) follow this link

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Monday, May 4, 2009

2009 Team Members:

The excavation permit has now been issued.
Contact the Director if you have questions or need advice.
Remember to provide details of expenses and date/time of arrival at Amorium.

See you at Amorium!

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Thursday, April 30, 2009

New Amorium Article Just Published!

Oğuz Koçyiğit and Chris Lightfoot, “Şarap ve Felaket,” Aktüel Arkeoloji 11 (April, 2009), 42-3.

The April 2009 issue of Aktüel Arkeoloji is now on sale at newsstands in Turkey

For international orders, see www.aktuelarkeoloji.com

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Amorium Receives Award

Project Director Chris Lightfoot is pleased to announce that the Adelaide and Milton De Groot Fund at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is generously supporting Amorium’s 2009 excavation season.

Plans for this year’s campaign are well advanced. Team members are advised to look out for further announcements and instructions on the website and by email.

The season will take place from June 29 until August 10, 2009. Visitors are welcome during the excavations, which will be open every day except Tuesdays.

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Monday, April 6, 2009

"Excavations at Amorium and the Byzantine Dark Ages" at the CUNY Graduate Center

Professor Eric Ivison is to give an illustrated lecture entitled "Excavations at Amorium and the Byzantine Dark Ages" at the CUNY Graduate Center on April 24, 2009 at 2:30 pm.

The lecture will take place in the Special Collections Reading Room (C196.05) and is sponsored by the Mina Rees Library.

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Monday, March 2, 2009

New Amorium web page on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Click here for the link to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website.

The Amorium Project wishes to thank Editor-in-Chief Teresa Lai and all the staff of Timeline for making this possible.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Gold Glass Roundtable

For once dig director Chris Lightfoot will not be speaking about Amorium, even though the site has produced a lot of gold glass mosaic tesserae. For details of this event in New York on March 28, 2009, click here.

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Monday, February 23, 2009

The 31st Annual Archaeological Symposium

This year's symposium will take place between May 25 and 29 and will be hosted by Pamukkale University, Denizli. Included in the program will be a presentation in Turkish on the Amorium Excavations 2008. Details will be posted in due course.

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Amorium Excavation website is happy to host the 8th Istanbul Byzantine Circular (January 2009).

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