The Byzantine Neighbourhood by Fotini Kondyli Benjamin Anderson

Author:Fotini Kondyli, Benjamin Anderson [Fotini Kondyli, Benjamin Anderson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138371064
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

New and middling houses encroached along the porticoes of the Arkadiane and in the Upper Agora. The latter houses enjoyed the proximity to the Hydrekdocheion (a Domitianic nymphaeum still functional in Late Antiquity), to an older Roman nymphaeum that was creatively fitted with a water-powered flour mill,83 and to cisterns installed under the Temple of Domitian.84 More upscale accommodations were built north of the Embolos in the vicinity of the Scholastikia baths, as well as in the giant porticoes of Verulanus at the Harbour Baths, immediately south of the Church of Mary.85 Important for our purposes is to note that – in contrast to the Roman-period houses of the Hanghäuser – both the middling and upscale houses of Early Byzantine Ephesos lacked piped-in supplies of water but were still served by functioning storm drains in the streets.86 Potable water for these residences was provided by wells or cisterns, or by proximity to the numerous still-functioning nymphaea.87 Altogether then, Ephesos presents some of the same dynamics encountered at Thessaloniki for water infrastructure’s continuity side-by-side with dramatic changes in character and functionality of neighbourhoods. Distinct here, in comparison with both Thessaloniki and Caesarea, are significantly improved visibility on watery changes in domestic architecture, and a multiplication of new Early Byzantine nymphaea that contrasts sharply with the reduced numbers of public fountains at e.g. Caesarea during the same period.

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