For Y'all Data - Completion Of 2018 Excavations At Geronisos Island

The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications too Works, has announced the completion of 5 weeks plan of excavation, survey, too report at Maniki Harbour nether the direction of Joan Breton Connelly, Professor of Classics too Art History of the New York University.

Aerial persuasion of Geronisis isle [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus]

An international squad of scholars gathered at Maniki Harbour to stimulate got business office inward the innovative multi-disciplinary plan of research.  The small, ancient port at Maniki served every bit the primary harbour for Geronisos too the ancient short town at Agios Georgios of  Pegeia from the Hellenistic through the early on Byzantine times.

physician Theotokis Theodoulou, Head of the Cretan department of the Ephorate for Underwater Antiquities inward Greece, physician Alexandros Tourtas of University of the Aegean, too Konstantinos Kostakis of Plano S.L.A., Crete, executed a coastal too underwater survey of Maniki Harbour. This included aerial mapping, 3D modelling, video-recording, snorkeling too reconnaissance diving. H5N1 custom-made platform bearing a digital photographic telly camera was used to photograph the western seabed of the cove.

3D model of Maniki Harbour, Geronisos [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus]

Rounded rock-cut “bollards” for mooring ships were identified at the due west side of the promontory, every bit good every bit inward the middle of the harbour. Rock cutting channels preserved inward the limestone shelf at harbour’s border may stimulate got accommodated wooden frameworks for loading too unloading or hauling ships too boats.

physician Georgia Andreou of Cornell too Brown University undertook coastal analysis employing ArcGIS, Agisoft PhotoScan too Digital Shoreline Analysis Software. She produced georeferenced 3D models of the harbour, contour too bathymetric maps, too a digital elevation model that is suitable for visualization too viewshed analysis.

3D model of Maniki Harbour, Geronisos [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus]

Miltiadis Polidorou of the National too Kapodistrian University of Athens undertook geomorphological surveys of Geronisos Island too coastline from Agios Georgios to Maniki, amongst drone mapping, 3D modelling, too orthomosaics.

Excavation focused on 3 stratigraphic sections dug through the vast dumps of belatedly Roman carry amphorae at the harbour’s edge.  Prof. Thomas Tartaron, Chair of the Graduate Program inward Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, directed a surface survey every bit good every bit the earthworks of 1 department through the dump.

Contour too bathymetric map of Maniki Harbour, Geronisos [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus]

Prof. Jolanta Młynarczyk of the University of Warsaw identified the dominant amphora type every bit southwestern Cypriot inward origin, dating from the fifth to mid-7th century AD. Also prevalent are Palestinian “bag-shaped” amphorae of the 5th-6th centuries too “Gaza jars” dating from the quaternary to sixth centuries AD. This assemblage attests to pilgrimage crusade betwixt the basilicas of Agios Georgios of Pegeia too the famous monastic centers of S Palestine, peculiarly during the years of Justinian’s reign.

Source: Press too Information Office, Republic of Republic of Cyprus [October 14, 2018]


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