Anemurium: A Roman and Early Byzantine City on Turkey’s Southern Shore
This is the first of two Zoom lectures presented by the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and the local chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Prof. em. Hector Williams from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver will present the AIA George H. Forsyth, Jr. Memorial Lecture, titled "Anemurium: a Roman and early Byzantine city on Turkey’s southern shore". Excavations by the University of British Columbia on Turkey’s southernmost promontory, Cape Anamur, have uncovered a picture of life in a modest but prosperous urban community from the third to seventh centuries of our era. Local benefactors built large public baths with exercise grounds, a theatre, one of the best preserved odeons (roofed small theatre) in the Roman world, hundreds of tombs, four early Christian churches (some with fine mosaic floors), houses and a small, well-preserved set of Byzantine baths. Industrial establishments that produced pottery, roof tiles and oil lamps also revealed much about economic life in the area. The speaker served as assistant director and photographer for ten seasons at the site. Learn more.
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