10. Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı - Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı

have accumulated in subsequent centuries, but winter storms and the effectsof coastal erosion in recent years, as well as limited archaeologicalsondages, have exposed portions of this structure in several places, Althoughit varies a little in its details, the wall's basic character, composedof a tough coııcrete aggregate of nıbble and occasional terracotta fragments,remains largely uniform throughout its length. The full height ofthe structure remairıs unknown, but as muclı as three metres of the heightof its seaward (east face) have been exposed at several points (Figs. 5and 6). In alater phase of the.city's history the structure provided a basefor the new city-wall erected in the Iate fourth century where it frontedthe sea, but there can be no doubt that its original functiorı was to protecrthe city's waterfront from heavy seas at a time when there was no shinglebeach to obstruct the sea's encroachment.The presence of the sea can best be demonstrated at the southerrı extremityof the sea-wall where it turns sharply westwards to disappear intothe earth fill that has accumulated between the sea-wall's southeast cornerand the steep slope of the promontory to the south (Fig. 6). A remarkablefeature in the scarp of this fill is the total absence, except nearthe surface, of any sigrı of construction or of artificial floors. Pottery andother aıtefaers are also very scarce, in contrast to the overburden in otherparts of the city, This suggests that there was once a smail natural bay enclosedby higher ground at this point which would have seıved as a modestharbour. Its entrance ınay be identified in the 25 metre gap that separaresthe southeast corner of the sea-wall from the remains of an ancientstructure built into a massive rock at the southern extremity of the modernbeach, The harbour was subsequently concealed by earth depositswashed down from the hill above and by the formation of the gravelbeach to a considerable depth along the front of the ancient city-.The most striking eviderice that the sea orıce penetrated as far as thesea-front wall, however, is provided by the mouth of a large vaulted passage2.60 m in width running through the wall at apoint 65 m south ofthe noıthernmost extremity of the longest existing stretch of the wall(Figs. 4 and 7). This is in fact the outlet of a major drain that ıraverses thefuJi breadth of the city from west to east. For a considerable portian of itscourse it ıı.ıns underneath and supports the mosaic pavement of the city'slarge palaestra, Since this building was ncaring completion around(2) The presence of a sccondary port may alsc be notcd. Stil! employed as an anehorage forsmaIl fishing boats, it nestlcs in a small bay Iocatcd on the cast llank of the outcnncst rockyspur of the promontory. Eviderice for its use in antiquity appears in rock cut steps Icadingfrom it Hud in a sınall building situated on a Ilat ledgc immediutely nbovc the harbor. Fordetails.see Russell, 1987.34-36.137