A new model for the city of Selinous

这个跨学科的项目旨在为Selinous城市的新模式奠定基础，考虑到该定居点历史的所有主要阶段。其目的是捕捉不同的历史时期和断裂的这一著名的考古遗址是已知的，我们从书面来源，并仔细审查其相互依存关系的形成和城市空间的转变，在系统和历时的方式。研究的解决方案的发展Selinous迄今主要集中在重建一个理想的典型模式的希腊殖民地，在公元前7世纪到公元前5世纪之间建成并逐渐扩大。根据一幅简化的图画，这座繁荣的希腊城市在公元前409年被迦太基人摧毁，人口大规模减少。在短暂的堡垒时期后，塞利努斯在古典时代晚期和希腊化时代被重新占领，直到公元前3世纪中期被暂时放弃。然而，我们对这些定居点活动的性质以及所涉行为者和当局的了解仍然相当模糊和零散。更不具体的是我们对古代晚期和中世纪前城市空间的后续使用的理解。通过结合现有和新收集的数据，该项目旨在首次创建整个城市发展和转型的差异化图景，从历史的角度考虑公共和私人空间的形成、破坏、废弃、重建和转换过程。通过这种方式，它可以有助于理解主要的历史和政治变化之间的联系，通过书面来源，以及城市改造，在考古记录中显而易见。该项目结合考古和地球科学专门知识，力求通过使用不同的勘探方法，如磁力测量、探地雷达和场地内人工制品测量，系统地捕捉整个城市地区。将通过战略地质取芯和考古发掘获得地层学和年代学方面的具体信息。该项目分两个供资阶段进行，每个阶段为期三年。每个阶段结束时将提出明确界定的成果：主要产品是一个可通过iDAI.world进入的可扩展地理信息系统。此外，研究结果还将以两篇专题论文的形式发表，每一研究周期之后各一篇。地球物理勘探的方法学挑战也将是论文的一部分。

This interdisciplinary project aims at creating the foundations for a new model of the city of Selinous, considering all major phases of the settlement’s history. The purpose is to capture the different historical periods and fractures of this famous archaeological site that are known to us from the written sources and to scrutinize their interdependencies with the formation and transformation of the urban space in a systematic and diachronic way.Research on the settlement development of Selinous has focused so far mainly on the reconstruction of an ideal-typical model of the Greek colony, built and gradually expanded between the 7th and 5th century BC. According to a simplified picture, the flourishing Greek city was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 409 BC and widely depopulated. After a brief interlude as a fortress, Selinous was reoccupied in Late Classical and Hellenistic times until its temporary abandonment in the mid-3rdcentury BC. Our knowledge of the nature of these settlement activities and of the implicated actors and authorities are, however, still rather vague and fragmented. Even more unspecific is our understanding of the subsequent use of the former urban space in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In combining existing and newly collected data, this project aims at creating for the first time a differentiated picture of the development and transformation of the entire city, considering processes of formation, destruction, abandonment, reconstruction and conversion of public and private spaces in a diachronic perspective. In this way it can contribute to the understanding of the connection between the major historical and political changes, handed down by the written sources, and the urban transformations, evident in the archaeological record. In combining archaeological and geoscientific expertise, this project strives to capture systematically the entire urban area through the use of different prospecting methods, such as magnetometry, ground penetrating radar and intra-site artefact surveying. Specific information on the stratigraphy and chronology will be gained by strategic geological coring and archaeological excavations.This project spreads over two funding phases of three years each. Clearly defined results will be presented at the end of each phase: The main product is an extendable geographical information system that will be accessible through the iDAI.world. The results will furthermore be presented in a two-piece monography, one following each research period. The methodological challenges of the geophysical prospections will also be part of a dissertation.