The three-year "Marmora Phrygiae" project, started in November 2012, has the main tasks in the study of the ancient quarries of the territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia and the reconstruction of the strategies aimed at supplying stone materials for the public building sites of the city and the private funerary monuments in the necropolises. The research is carrying out in a diachronic perspective, from the Hellenistic age to the Byzantine period. The project involves three Institutes of the National Research Council of Italy (IBAM, IGAG and ICVBC) and the Salento University, and is also aimed to produce an on-line geodatabase. I twill include the archaeometric characterization of the marble and alabaster quarries in the territory of Hierapolis, and the data regarding the provenance of the marbles used in the main building sites of Roman Imperial and Byzantine periods of the city and the funerary monuments and sarcophagi of Hellenistic and Roman Imperial ages in the necropolises. During the first two years of the project, the systematic studies of the quarries in the Hierapolis territory (Hierapolis-Gök Dere, Marmar Tepe, Gölemezli and Thiounta) and of some of the main urban building sites of the Roman Imperial and Byzantine periods were performed; about the last ones, even historical-artistic characteristics, building techniques and socio-economic aspects were considered. An extensive sampling was carried out in the quarries and in the monuments and artefacts of city and necropolises. It is aimed at the archaeometric characterization of marbles from quarries and the defining of the provenance of those used in the monuments and for artefacts, thanks to the comparison with a database that include local marbles and the already published data from the main marble quarries in south-western Turkey (Denizli, Aphrodisias, Göktepe, Docimium). The archaeometric analyses (minero-petrographic, isotopic, and in cathodoluminescence) are in progress and are allowing to acquire new and very interesting data about supplying strategies, building solutions, and choices of public and private orders. Moreover, due to the peculiar hydro-geologic and tectonic characteristics of the site of Hierapolis, a specific research is aimed at the study of degradation phenomena and the preservation of marbles.
Marmora Phrygiae. Un progetto per lo studio delle antiche cave di marmo e di alabastro di Hierapolis di Frigia e delle strategie di approvvigionamento dei materiali lapidei: approcci metodologici e prospettive di ricerca
G Scardozzi
2017
Abstract
The three-year "Marmora Phrygiae" project, started in November 2012, has the main tasks in the study of the ancient quarries of the territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia and the reconstruction of the strategies aimed at supplying stone materials for the public building sites of the city and the private funerary monuments in the necropolises. The research is carrying out in a diachronic perspective, from the Hellenistic age to the Byzantine period. The project involves three Institutes of the National Research Council of Italy (IBAM, IGAG and ICVBC) and the Salento University, and is also aimed to produce an on-line geodatabase. I twill include the archaeometric characterization of the marble and alabaster quarries in the territory of Hierapolis, and the data regarding the provenance of the marbles used in the main building sites of Roman Imperial and Byzantine periods of the city and the funerary monuments and sarcophagi of Hellenistic and Roman Imperial ages in the necropolises. During the first two years of the project, the systematic studies of the quarries in the Hierapolis territory (Hierapolis-Gök Dere, Marmar Tepe, Gölemezli and Thiounta) and of some of the main urban building sites of the Roman Imperial and Byzantine periods were performed; about the last ones, even historical-artistic characteristics, building techniques and socio-economic aspects were considered. An extensive sampling was carried out in the quarries and in the monuments and artefacts of city and necropolises. It is aimed at the archaeometric characterization of marbles from quarries and the defining of the provenance of those used in the monuments and for artefacts, thanks to the comparison with a database that include local marbles and the already published data from the main marble quarries in south-western Turkey (Denizli, Aphrodisias, Göktepe, Docimium). The archaeometric analyses (minero-petrographic, isotopic, and in cathodoluminescence) are in progress and are allowing to acquire new and very interesting data about supplying strategies, building solutions, and choices of public and private orders. Moreover, due to the peculiar hydro-geologic and tectonic characteristics of the site of Hierapolis, a specific research is aimed at the study of degradation phenomena and the preservation of marbles.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
