Archaeological Research in the City of Antakya (Antioch on the Orontes), Final Evaluation and publication

只有少数几个古城，特别是在大都市的水平上，在丰富的文学传统和相对稀少的考古遗产之间存在着如此明显的差异，就像奥朗提斯（安塔基亚）上的安提阿一样。尽管20世纪30年代法美企业的尝试，七个实地季节（1932-1939）的考古结果在地形和时间的观点下受到了学术界的严重批评。为了重新考虑安提阿的考古，土耳其和德国发起了一个实地项目（2004年至2008年），该项目侧重于地形（试图取代1938年不可靠的城市地图），城市主义和希腊罗马和拜占庭城市的建筑。目前的申请旨在全面评估我们多学科企业的成果，并出版自2004年以来开展的城市地图和一系列建筑研究（包括完整的防御系统，铁门，水装置，墓地和各种城市内外古迹）。该出版物的首要目标是提供有关希腊化，罗马和古代晚期安提阿城市结构的可靠数据，并允许重建城市的城市发展。该出版物有望为安提阿的考古，地形和语言学研究的未来方法奠定坚实的基础，这些研究长期以来一直处于令人不满意的僵局中。

There are only a few ancient cities, especially on the metropolis level, where there is such a conspicuous discrepancy between an abundant literary tradition and a comparatively scanty archaeological heritage as in the case of Antioch on the Orontes (Antakya). Despite the attempts of the franco-american enterprise of the 1930's, the archaeological results of the seven field seasons (1932-1939) have been heavily critizised by scholarship under a both topographical and chronological point of view. In order to reconsider the archaeology of Antioch, a turkish-german field project was initiated (2004 - 2008), which focussed on topography (in an attempt to replace of the unreliable city map of 1938), urbanism and architecture of the greco-roman and byzantine city. The present application aims at a full evaluation of the results of our multidiciplinary enterprise and a publication of both city map and a set of architectural studies carried out since 2004 (including the complete fortification systems, Iron Gate, water installations, necropoleis and various intra- and extraurban monuments). The overarching objective of the publication is to supply reliable data on the urban structure of hellenistic, roman and late antique Antioch and to allow for a reconstruction of the urban development of the city. The publication is expected to serve as a sound basis for a future approach on the archaeological, topographical and philological research of Antioch, which has long reached an unsatisfying impasse.