Hisn al-Tinat on the Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Synthesis and the 2005-2008 Survey and Excavation on the Cilician Plain (Turkey)
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- A. Asa Eger, Full Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Cilicia on the Islamic-Byzantine frontier, or al-thughur, in southeastern Anatolia and northern Syria has been traditionally viewed as an isolated, embattled buffer zone. Yet, it was also the main transportation corridor linking Islamic and Byzantine lands, situated between the Cilician Gates, connecting to the Anatolian plateau, and the Syrian Gates, connecting to the lands of bilad al-sham. Recent survey and excavation of a fortified site occupied from the Early Islamic to Middle Byzantine period (8th to 12th centuries c.e.) in the eastern Cilician Plain offers a different perspective on the frontier. The site can be identified with ?i?n ?i?nal-Tinat, mentioned in sources as a frontier fort and timber depot and port. Its environmental context, architecture, and material culture establish links to local thughur and wider Near Eastern networks of exchange. Further, the frontier site alludes to the complex symbiotic relationship of a militarized and economic resource-based frontier landscape.
Hisn al-Tinat on the Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Synthesis and the 2005-2008 Survey and Excavation on the Cilician Plain (Turkey)
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 357 (February 2010)
- Language: English
- Date: 2010
- Keywords
- excavations, coasts, pottery, timber, glazes, forts, material culture, architecture