Demirciören (Erdemli)
Coordinates: 36 ° 29 ′ 37.8 " N , 34 ° 7 ′ 54.7" E
Demirciören is the Turkish name for the ruins of a Hellenistic - Early Byzantine settlement in Rough Cilicia in southern Turkey .
location
On the eastern outskirts of Kızkalesi , the ancient Korykos , a road leads along the east side of the Şeytan Deresi valley to the north, past the towers of Gömeç and Gücük and the rock tombs from Adamkayalar to Cambazlı and on to Uzuncaburç , the ancient Olba . After about three kilometers you will find the Demirciören corridor on the east side. This includes the ruins of an imperial village, now called Hıdırlı , a few hundred meters east of the modern road, which are sometimes also treated as demircioren in literature. About 1.4 kilometers northwest of this is the settlement discussed here, also east of the road and on the west side of the Paşa Deresi valley , which stretches north from Elaiussa Sebaste (now Ayaş ) into the mountainous hinterland.
description
The hamlet consisted of 15 to 20 houses, plus a church and a residential and watchtower. The church is a three-aisled basilica with an inner length of 10.38 meters (without apse). A narthex was planned but not carried out. To the side and behind the apse were two-storey ancillary and walk-around rooms, in the north there was a rectangular extension. Remains of the north and west walls with the entrance as well as part of the apse and the northern side room have been preserved. The interior is heavily buried. The church is dated to the 5th to 6th centuries.
The tower has a floor plan of 5.55 × 5.5 meters and is built from neatly smoothed, isodomic blocks, the masonry is embossed . Its entrance is in the south wall, above it there is a vaulted vault . It has a window and a slot window above the entrance and another slot window in the east wall. The north wall facing the weather is closed, the west wall has not been preserved. The tower stands next to a cistern covered with panels, which may expand under the building. In the east, a press system is attached to the wall. The tower probably had a guard function for the surrounding agricultural areas on the one hand, and on the other hand it was used as a storage room. Its function as living space was limited due to its small size and was given in dangerous situations. Serra Durugönül , who researched the towers in Rough Cilicia in the 1990s, dates the building to the Hellenistic period, here from the late 2nd to the early 1st century BC, due to the wall technology and the bossing - like the towers of Uzuncaburç and Kanytelleis. Chr.
Apse of the church from the south
Interior of the church, view of the entrance
Tower from the south
Wedge above the tower entrance
Building with remains of vaults
literature
- Friedrich Hild , Hansgerd Hellenkemper : Kilikien and Isaurien. Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 5. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1811-2 , p. 237 sv "Demirciören (2)"
- Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Friedrich Hild: New research in Kilikien. Publications of the commission for the Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 4. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7001-0771-4 , p. 67 sv "Km 4,4"
- Serra Durugönül : towers and settlements in the Rough Cilicia. Asia Minor Studies Volume 28. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1998 ISBN 3-7749-2840-1 p. 78, 122 et passim.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ In Hild / Hellenkemper: Cilicia and Isauria , Hıdırlı are called Demirciören (1) and the ruins to the north, discussed here, are called Demirciören (2).