The Commercial Map of Constantinople

Mango, Marlia Mundell

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“…Mundell Mango has produced convincing textual and visual evidence suggesting that the main streets of this sort remained in commercial use (albeit with their colonnades replaced by piers) into the Middle Byzantine period, perhaps until the loss of the city in 1204. 54 This is a view that would be consistent with the other evidence discussed here. As we have seen, domestic structures of Middle Byzantine date could still front onto the Early Byzantine main street of the city, suggesting that this remained a thoroughfare at that time.…”

Section: Streets and Shopssupporting

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Houses, streets and shops in Byzantine Constantinople from the fifth to the twelfth centuries

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2004

Journal of Medieval History

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This paper presents an analysis and reinterpretation of current evidence for houses, streets and shops in fifth-to twelfth-century Byzantine Constantinople, focussing on archaeological evidence. Previously unidentified townhouses and residential blocks are located. These show greater similarities to Roman-period domestic architecture than might be expected. Changes in the architectural style may be related to social change in the seventh century. Berger's reconstruction of the early Byzantine street plan is shown to be archaeologically untenable. This has implications for the identification of formal planning and the boundaries of urban districts in the Byzantine capital. The limited archaeological evidence for streets and shops is also discussed. #

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Section: Streets and Shopssupporting

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Houses, streets and shops in Byzantine Constantinople from the fifth to the twelfth centuries

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2004

Journal of Medieval History

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“…Along with the Harbour of Julian (r. 361–363), located farther east on the Marmara shore and built in approximately the same period, the Theodosian Harbour was intended for importing commercial goods and supplies necessary for the expanding city (Müller‐Wiener, : 8–10; Magdalino, : 210–11). As part of the annona , the state‐administrated system of food allotments, massive quantities of grain and other provisions were shipped to Constantinople to sustain the growing population of the capital (Mango, : 190). According to the Notitia , two large, government‐run granaries, the Horrea Alexandrina and the Horreum Theodosianum , were located between the Theodosian Harbour and the Harbour of Julian, confirming that these harbours accommodated the large vessels bringing grain from ports as far as Alexandria in Egypt (Mango, : 121; Magdalino, : 211).…”

Section: History Of the Theodosian Harbourmentioning

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“…According to the Notitia , two large, government‐run granaries, the Horrea Alexandrina and the Horreum Theodosianum , were located between the Theodosian Harbour and the Harbour of Julian, confirming that these harbours accommodated the large vessels bringing grain from ports as far as Alexandria in Egypt (Mango, : 121; Magdalino, : 211). One of these granaries, later known as the Lamia , was the only such structure still known to have been in use in Constantinople by the 10th century (Mango, : 54–5; Haldon, : 204–9; Magdalino, : 213; Mango, : 200–1; Magdalino, : 23–6). As a result of the difficulties faced by the large grain‐carrying ships in navigating against the strong current of the Hellespont, Justinian I built granaries on the island of Tenedos (Bozcaada) in the 6th century, allowing the grain to be transferred from Tenedos to the capital using smaller vessels (Procop.…”

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EightByzantine Shipwrecks from theTheodosianHarbour Excavations atYenikapı inIstanbul,Turkey: an introduction

Pulak

Ingram

Jones

2014

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

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Excavations at Yenikapı in Istanbul, Turkey, related to the Marmaray Project, have unearthed remains of Constantinople's Theodosian Harbour, including 37 Byzantine shipwrecks of 5th‐ to 11th‐century date. Eight of these shipwrecks, six round ships and two of the first long ships, or galleys, to be excavated from the Byzantine period, were studied by archaeologists from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. These well‐preserved shipwrecks are an important new source of information on the maritime commerce of Constantinople and the gradual shift from shell‐based to skeleton‐based shipbuilding in the Mediterranean during the second half of the first millennium AD.

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“…The myrepsoi were spice [and drugs] merchants who traded by weight. They operated from the Portico of Achilles, situated between the Million and the Chalke Gate 55 . They, and their counterparts in the Latin West, used scales for weighting their goods (Figure 4).…”

Section: δέλτος • τεύχος 51 • ιούνιος 2023mentioning

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Issues pertaining to posology in ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine medical texts

Valiakos,

Marselos,

Diamandopoulos

2024

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Researching medical texts of the past reveals that the preparation of a therapeutic recipe usually involved the use of several active ingredients. There are many detailed reports on the ratio of the ingredients in a recipe, but also on the dosage administered to the patient. In this article, we recorded the use of units of weight and volume in therapeutic recipes from antiquity, the Hellenistic era, the Roman Empire, Byzantium, and also empirical medical texts of the 19th century. The changes emerging over time from the growing trade in the wider Mediterranean area, with the introduction of both new products and new units of measurement, did not affect the basic principles of the therapeutic methods. Through the centuries, the main concern of physicians was to fight the disease without burdening the patient with any unwanted effects. In this context, we observe even dosage modifications when it comes to special vulnerable population groups, such as children, the elderly and pregnant women. The period covered is very large, which means that the approach is impressionistic not aiming to the philologists. We hope that this does not pose a problem to the interested historians of medicine.

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The Commercial Map of Constantinople

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Houses, streets and shops in Byzantine Constantinople from the fifth to the twelfth centuries

Houses, streets and shops in Byzantine Constantinople from the fifth to the twelfth centuries

EightByzantine Shipwrecks from theTheodosianHarbour Excavations atYenikapı inIstanbul,Turkey: an introduction

Issues pertaining to posology in ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine medical texts

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