Abstract

The site of Hierapolis sits almost majestically, on a limestone platform at some 350 metres above sea level, on the western edge of the Anatolian plateau, and overlooking the eminently fertile Lykos river valley, in western Asia Minor. In extent, its ruins cover almost 800,000 m2 and it is clear that they must always have formed a prominent landmark. The visibility of plan, public and private space, and sprawl, is remarkable, and given the limited post-medieval and modern settlement around the former polis, robbing has been restricted principally to movement of stone around the site. In total, over 50 years of archaeological investigation have taken place at Hierapolis which have helped reveal the city’s growth, monuments and population. The demise of the city has also gained some attention, though at first in the context of the decay of classical civilisation. As will be shown below, it is only in the last two decades of excavation and analysis that we can start to trace and understand the processes of mutation, rather than simply decline, which eventually, over the course of a 1000 years, brought such a major settlement to its state of spoil and ruin, and now to a major archaeological park. This chapter explores what has been retrieved from the ‘sea of ruins’ so as to reconstruct an intriguing and fairly complex post-classical, Byzantine and Turkish, history of Hierapolis.

Autore Pugliese

• Arthur Paul Raymond

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• P. Arthur

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2012

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