Project:
Geomagnetic test lines to evaluate the conservation conditions of
ancient structures of buildings in the modern town of Hatay (Antakya)
Left: City wall at the northern slope of the Silpius mountain.
Centre: Entrance of the Parmenios gorge.
Right: Measuring area Epiphanea on the Staurin mountain.
Location:
Antiochia on the Orontes, Antakya/Hatay, Turkey
Client:
Department of Oriental Archaeology and Art of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Brands, (brands@orientarch.uni-halle.de)
Targets:
Test lines to evaluate the conservation conditions of ancient structures of buildings
in the modern town of Hatay. Set-up of a digital cartography as a basis for a systematic
investigation of visible and assumed relicts of ancient building remnants in Antiochia
and the ancient seaport of Seleukia Pieria.
Operations and results:
Map of the ancient city of Antiochia by Wolfram Hoepfner, state 2002.
Geomagnetic investigations on the Staurin mountain to locate the town of „Epiphanea“
and a complex geophysical prospectin with geomagnetics and GPR close to the church St. Peter
at the outlet of the Parmenios gorge as well as on the expansion area Basilea within the town
show completely different results.
Fluxgate-Array and DGPS at
ancient seaport.
In Seleukia Pieria which is the former seaport of Antiochias, the conservation conditions
are best because since centuries this area is only used agriculturally, and the GPR
measurements yielded brilliant results.
Timeslice 5 of a GPR record in Seleukia Pieria from a depth of about 1-1.5 m.
