The Water Supply of Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople

Crow, James

doi:10.5040/9780755694310.ch-010

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“…The fourth century channel was found to be a narrow conduit of width around 0.65 m from the springs to Kalfaköy, while the fifth century channel started as a narrow channel around 0.70 m wide, and widened to 1.60 m after Safalaan. In the section downstream of Kalfaköy, there are relatively few surviving channels, mostly around 0.85 m wide; however two of these, located south of Tayakadın, were reported to be 1.20 m and (Crow et al 2008a(Crow et al , b, 2009. In addition, field surveys gave GPS locations for 38 bridges and 27 channel sections (Maktav et al 2009).…”

Section: Hydraulic Propertiesmentioning

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The valens aqueduct of constantinople: hydrology and hydraulics

Crapper

2020

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A hydrological and hydraulic engineering analysis has been carried out on the Valens aqueduct system constructed from around AD 345 and serving Constantinople. A GIS analysis of previous field observations combined with a digital elevation model confirmed the aqueduct’s likely route and slope. Macrophysical Climate Modelling revealed that contemporary weather data was an appropriate proxy for the time of the aqueduct’s construction, and modern flow data was obtained for some of the springs that fed the aqueduct. Existing, previously documented remains, especially at intakes, were considered, and the industry standard software HEC–RAS was used to simulate the performance of the aqueduct system with a view to understanding the amount of water it could have delivered to the city, the seasonal variation in supply and the most likely configuration of the aqueduct, where this was not clear from existing archaeology. It was concluded that the most likely configuration for the aqueduct system was a fourth and a fifth century channel continuing separately and in parallel to the city walls, which might have delivered flow the range of 0.73 m3/s in the driest month of October to 1.73 m3/s in the wettest month of March over an average year.

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The valens aqueduct of constantinople: hydrology and hydraulics

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2020

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“…Once the water reached Constantinople, it was collected and stored in the many cisterns and reservoirs throughout the city. While storing water in these structures was not a new phenomenon, the size and quantity of those found in Constantinople marked a great transition from typical Roman water management (Crow, Bardill and Bayliss 2008). At present count, 211 cisterns or reservoirs were built from the time the city was founded through Ottoman rule (Ward et al 2016).…”

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Agent-based modelling and construction – reconstructing antiquity’s largest infrastructure project

Snyder

Dilaver

Stephenson

et al. 2017

Construction Management and Economics

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Agent-based modelling, Byzantine Constantinople, Archaeological engineering URL: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcme Construction Management and Economics Agent-based modelling and constructionreconstructing antiquity's largest infrastructure project Archaeological remains around the world are testament that large-scale construction projects have been successfully carried out for millennia. This success is particularly evident through the great infrastructural works of the Roman Empire. Yet, it was when the capital was moved from Rome to Constantinople that the largest of these projects was undertaken. This megaproject of the fourth-and fifth-century water supply was made of hundreds of kilometres aqueduct channels and bridges that brought fresh water to the city's complex system of reservoirs and cisterns. Unlike projects of the previous centuries, we are left with no written record of how this titanic project was undertaken and existing archaeological and historical commentaries on structures of this period do not provide details of organisation of construction. We explore the nature of building Constantinople's water supply through diverse sources of knowledge and the application of agent-based modelling-a method for simulating the actions, interactions and behaviours of autonomous agents and the resulting emergent properties of the system in which they are a part. This paper demonstrates the ability of ABM to develop and test richer hypothoses about historical construction organisatione and management than the sparse or missing physical and historical evidence on their own.

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“…Orta ve Geç Bizans Dönemi'nde inşa edilen sarnıçlarda Geç Antik Çağ'a ait mimari elemanlar devşirme olarak kullanıldığından sarnıç kalıntılarının inşa tarihlerinin saptanabilmesinde güçlüklerle karşılaşılabilmektedir (Crow-Bardill-Bayliss, 2008). Özellikle sütun başlıkları¬ nın tarihleme açısından güvenilirlikleri düşüktür.…”

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“…Özellikle sütun başlıkları¬ nın tarihleme açısından güvenilirlikleri düşüktür. Sarnıç¬ ların tarihlendirilmeleri duvar örgü tekniği, sütun başlık¬ ları, tuğla boyutları veya mevcut ise damgalı tuğlaların bütüncül olarak incelenmesi ile mümkün olmaktadır (Bar-dill, 2004;Crow-Bardill-Bayliss, 2008, Altuğ, 2012, Al tuğ, 2013.…”

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Tari̇hi̇ Yarimada'nin Bazi Bi̇li̇nmeyen Bi̇zans Dönemi̇ Sarniçlari

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2012

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İstanbul'da kent arkeolojisine dair sistematik bilimsel kazıların yoksunluğu nedeniyle, kentin geçmişine ait arkeolojik bulgular genellikle inşa faaliyetleri kapsamında gerçekleştirilen kazılar ile ortaya çıkarılmaktadır. Marmaray gibi büyük ölçekli projelerin kurtarma kazılarına kıyasla, özellikle parsel bazında gerçekleştirilen temel kazılarından elde edilen arkeolojik bulgular kayda geçirilmelerine rağmen, bu veriler genellikle ilgili kurumlardaki arşiv dosyalarında kalmakta ve akademik camiaya tanıtılamamaktadır.Bu makalede, İstanbul Tarihi Yarımadadaki temel kazılarında ortaya çıkarılan, daha önce yayınlanmamış ya da mevcut yayınlardan sınırlı bilgiler edinebildiğimiz bir grup Bizans Dönemi sarnıç kalıntısı, arşiv verileri ve görsel belgelerle desteklenerek sunulmaktadır.

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The Water Supply of Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople

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The valens aqueduct of constantinople: hydrology and hydraulics

The valens aqueduct of constantinople: hydrology and hydraulics

Agent-based modelling and construction – reconstructing antiquity’s largest infrastructure project

Tari̇hi̇ Yarimada'nin Bazi Bi̇li̇nmeyen Bi̇zans Dönemi̇ Sarniçlari

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