A new model for the city of Selinous

这个跨学科的项目旨在为塞尔金斯市的新模式奠定基础，考虑到定居点历史的所有主要阶段。其目的是从文字资料中捕捉这一著名考古遗址的不同历史时期和断裂，并以系统和历时的方式审视它们与城市空间形成和转变的相互依存关系。迄今为止，关于塞林恩聚落发展的研究主要集中在重建一个理想的希腊殖民地典型模式上，该模式是在公元前7世纪和5世纪之间建造和逐渐扩大的。根据一幅简化的图片，这座繁荣的希腊城市在公元前409年被迦太基人摧毁，人口大量减少。在作为堡垒的短暂插曲之后，塞林恩在古典晚期和希腊化时代重新被占领，直到公元前3世纪中叶暂时放弃。然而，我们对这些定居点活动的性质以及牵连的行为者和当局的了解仍然相当模糊和支离破碎。更不明确的是，我们对古代晚期和中世纪时期以前的城市空间后来的使用情况的理解。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的发展和转型的不同图景，从历时的角度考虑公共和私人空间的形成、破坏、废弃、重建和转换的过程。通过这种方式，它可以有助于理解由书面资料流传下来的重大历史和政治变化与考古记录中明显的城市变革之间的联系。该项目将考古和地球科学的专门知识结合起来，通过使用不同的勘探方法，如磁力测量、探地雷达和场地内文物测量，努力系统地捕捉整个城市地区。有关地层和年代学的具体资料将通过战略地质取心和考古发掘获得。这项计划分两个资金阶段进行，每个阶段为期三年。将在每个阶段结束时提出明确界定的成果：主要产品是一个可扩展的地理信息系统，可通过iDAI世界获取。这些结果将进一步以两件式的专著形式呈现，每个研究阶段之后一件。地球物理勘探的方法论挑战也将成为论文的一部分。

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.