期刊名称：International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics
电子版ISSN：2148-9173
出版年度：2021
卷号：8
期号：3
页码：386-396
语种：English
出版社：IJEGEO
摘要：Located 20 km west of the Bosporus, the Bathonea ancient port settlement on the Avcılar / Firuzköy Peninsula northwest ofKüçükçekmece Lagoon Lake has been the subject of archeological excavations with a multidisciplinary team since 2010.Excavations determined two separate structures with intense and destructive damage and studies were performed about whether ornot this damage was caused by destructive earthquakes in the region. A church structure with an apse had most pronounced intensedamage and skeletons belonging to two hugging individuals were identified under the stones of a collapsed dome. Additionally, coinsdated to 550 and other archeological materials reveal the destructive earthquake occurred after 550 in the period of the EmperorJustinian (527-565). If it had occurred during the reign of a different emperor, the coins would have been out of circulation. Strongdestructive traces were identified in other structures spread over a large area in the excavation site, apart from the apse structure. Inthe north of the peninsula nearly 600 m from the church structure, visible offsets and collapsed walls were revealed in the walls of agreat water cistern. Deformation offsets and fractures observed in this cistern and in tunnels bringing water to the cistern provideevidence of earthquakes in the 6th century. After the structure became unusable, bricks and stones used for construction of otherstructures in the 7-8th centuries provide important data to date the earthquake. Excavations supporting geophysical studies continue.The results from the excavation confirm some historical earthquakes occurring in Istanbul and mentioned by ancient and medievalwriters with archeological evidence for the first time.
