11. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı - Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı

Further surveys were carried out in the quarry of red lasian marble,which so far seems to have been the only quarry that for certain was exploitedintensively. The existence of a path going down to the sea had ledto the assumption of an outcrop of marble in an area nearer to the sea, exploitationof which must have been more economic. But, after careful examination,traces of quarrying work have not been found on a lower levelthan the terraced wal1 of the mainquarry. The upper limit of the ancientquarry cannot be determined because it has been eroded by the modemroad and recent works in the quarry.About 2 km east of this quarry, on a much lower level, a "lelegiancompound" was surveyed: other similar buildings have been found on theancient coastline, now the marsh of San çay.TERRITORY OF BARGYLIAThe survey of the site of Bargylia, facilitated by the destruction ofthe woodland by the inhabitants of the surrounding areas, allowed somemore precise specifications. Even though visible only in a discontinousway, it seems that the plan of the byzantine fortress (Fig. 8), which probablypartially covered the area of the ancient agora consists of severalseries of barrel-vaulted rooms meant for different purposes and built ondifferent levels, sloping down to the sea. it seems that only a few of themsustained a second storey, otherwhile the other ones functioned as substructurefor a central courtyard (Fig. 9).In the area of the fortress a series of architectural elements (bases,shafts and capitals of columns and pieces of entablature), which seem tobelong to the same architectural complex, possibly the agora. The discoveryof the inscription KLAYDI on a fragment of a lintel block (Fig.10) permits dating of building to the Julio-Claudian Age, which wouldseem to be confirmed by its architectonic features, similar, for example,to those of the so-called "Porch of Tiberius" at Aphrodisias.The walls of the fortress appear to have undergone three buildingphases, visible in the Iate Roman walls connecting the area of the agorawith the sections of the so-called HelIenistic walls, appearing in goodcondition behind the apse of the church of St. Peter and Paul', A directlink between the two structures might have been removed during a dig,probably during the survey carried out by Biliotti in 1865.(3) See E. La Rocca, in Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı iX (1992), p.61, fig. 2; pp.73-74,fig.5.179