Archaeology and urban settlement in late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia : Euchaïta-Avkat-Beyözü and its environment /
edited by John Haldon, Hugh Elton, Jim Newhard
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018
- (377 p.)
Bibliogr. p. 319-367
Physical and historical introduction / Hugh Elton -- Geology, geomorphology and paleoenvironments / Warren J. Eastwood and Hakan Yiğitbaşıoğlu -- The survey: methods of survey, data collection and management, and artificial planning / James M.L. Newhard -- Travel and communication / Sarah Craft -- The countryside / Peter Bikoulis -- The ceramics, agricultural resources and food / Joanita Vroom -- The archaeology of the city and its hinterland / Hugh Elton -- Euchaïta: from late Roman and Byzantine town to Ottoman village / John Haldon
"The site of medieval Euchaïta, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro ('the Recruit'). Unlike most excavated or surveyed urban centres of the Byzantine period, Euchaïta was never a major metropolis, cultural centre or extensive urban site, although it had a military function from the seventh-ninth century. Its significance lies precisely in the fact that as a small provincial town, something of a backwater, it was probably more typical of the 'average' provincial Anatolian urban settlement, yet almost nothing is known about such sites"--