Dinner time in Athens: Eating and drinking in the Medieval Agora

Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture: Archiving Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Fieldwork Data from the Eastern Mediterranean (600–2000 ad), Phase 1

“…Another concern was that the deposition of the data from the four excavations and two surveys is of great significance for the internationally flourishing fields of Byzantine, Islamic, Crusader and Ottoman archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean, which are increasingly regionally faced with progressive destruction of archaeological and historical archives (Vroom, 2013;2015;Vroom et al, 2017;Bağcı, 2017).…”

“…Tarsus, on the other hand, functioned as a crossroad of Byzantine, Arab and Crusader cultures, and the archaeological finds coming from the excavations here highlight this crosscultural interaction between the Christian and the Islamic worlds. The first results in the study of the rich and unique material from the four urban sites have been published in various articles, book chapters and monographs (e.g., Vroom, 2003;2013b;2015;Vroom & Fındık, 2015;Bağcı, 2017;Bağcı & Vroom, 2017;Vroom & Tzavella, 2017). These results shed new light on the economic, social and cultural developments at the sites under study during the Medieval and Post-Medieval periods, as well as on aspects of their spatial organization and relation to their hinterlands (cf.…”