Karakabaklı
Coordinates: 36 ° 25 ′ 50 ″ N , 34 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E
Karakabaklı is the Turkish name of a small Byzantine town in Cilicia , in the Silifke district of the Turkish province of Mersin . It is about ten kilometers north of Silifke on the road that leads from Karadedeli to Uzuncaburç , the ancient Olba , and about 20 km west of Kızkalesi . It belonged to the late antique province of Isauria .
City layout
Karakabaklı is in the hinterland of Seleukia on the Kalykadnos, today's Silifke. Due to its size and the costly ashlar masonry, it is, together with the neighboring town of Işıkkale, an example of Byzantine settlements from the fifth and sixth centuries in the intermediate stage of rural and urban character and of the increasing prosperity of the Isaurian landscape during this period. According to Gunder Varinlioglu from the University of Pennsylvania , the two places also exemplify the Christianization phase in rural areas. In the area there are partly considerable remains of churches, chapels, graves, residential buildings, tetrapyla , roads and agricultural facilities such as threshing floors and wine and olive presses. The residential buildings are mostly two-, sometimes even three-story. You have one main room on each floor, which is entered first through the entrance and from which the other rooms are accessible. On the ground floor there are generally only utility rooms with the agricultural equipment mentioned above, the living rooms are mainly on the upper floors. These are comfortably furnished and often have a balcony, their own water supply points and latrines. A similarity, suspected by Semavi Eyice, with corresponding buildings in the area of the Dead Cities in northern Syria could not be confirmed.
Research history
In the 1970s, Semavi Eyice from İstanbul Üniversitesi recorded and described the Byzantine monuments in the Silifke region in a first major inventory project. Ina Eichner managed a survey project for the recording of early Byzantine houses in Turkey as part of a DAAD scholarship in the years 1998–2000 and 2003 and also examined and re-measured houses in Karakabaklı. As part of her dissertation, she published new floor plans, among other things. The Turkish Byzantinist Günder Varinlioğlu also examined Karakabaklı and Işıkkale in 2003.
literature
- Semavi Eyice: Some Byzantine small towns in the Rough Cilicia , in: 150 years of the German Archaeological Institute. Philipp von Zabern 1981 204ff. ISBN 9783805304771
- Ina Eichner: Early Byzantine houses in Cilicia. Architectural history study of the types of housing in the region around Seleukeia on the Kalykadnos (= Istanbul Research Vol. 52). Wasmuth, Tübingen 2011, pp. 186-257 ISBN 978-3-8030-1773-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günder Varinlioğlu: Rural Habitat in the Hinterland of Seleucia ad Calycadnum during Late Antiquity In: Michael C. Hoff, Rhys F. Townsend (ed.): Rough Cilicia - New Historical and Archaeological Approaches Oxford 2013, pp. 199–209 ISBN 978 -1-84217-518-7
- ^ Ina Eichner: Early Byzantine houses in Cilicia. Work report on the 2003 campaign and some results of the project in 22. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı 2. Cilt, TC Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Konya 2004 as PDF