Activities of the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University, 2019

Activities of the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University, 2019 SHORT REPORTS ON THE ONGOING FIELD PROJECTS BY ICAR TURKEY Kaymakçı The ICAR team continued work on the LBA fortified citadel of Kaymakçı in central Western Anatolia, led by Ch. Roosevelt and Ch. Luke (Koç University, Istanbul). The team consisted of 6 people, targeting as usual work on ceramic finds (K. Jarošová, J. Matznerová and P.Pavúk) and digital recording (P.Demján and J. Bobik). Almost 1,700 fragments and vessels were processed in detail with the help of the Laser Profiler (LAP). Anew team member (K. Doležalová) made use of her geoarcheological background and started studying the ground stone artefacts. The move to new facilities included also moving the depot, which offered awelcome op‑ portunity for reorganisation and additional work on already conserved pieces, which had been stored separately. In asecond step anew study collection of the representative pieces was created, reflecting both the diversity of shapes and fabrics but also different excavation areas. Targeted work was dedicated to Area 99.526, which we plan to record digitally in its entirety. Further work was done towards gaining an overall typology of ceramic shapes and the creation of amore robust periodisation system for the site. Sardis Work has also been continued on the Bronze Age material from adeep trench in Field 49 at the Harvard ‑Cornell excavations at Sardis under the direction of N. Cahill (University of Wisconsin). It was possible to differentiate two main occupation episodes, one preliminarily dated to the EBA IIIB and the other to the advanced stage of the LBA. Further work, also in collaboration with Fulya Dedeoğlu (Ege University, Izmir) is to be continued. CROATIA Lovas Anew international project initiated in the municipality of Lovas in Eastern Croatia led by the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb (AMZ), represented by Sanjin Mihelić and Filip Franko‑ vić, since 2018 in cooperation with the Institute of Classical Archaeology in Prague (ICAR), represented by Peter Pavúk. The aim of the project is primarily abetter understanding of the Early and Middle Bronze Age developments in this area and their better anchoring with what is known in the surrounding regions. Surface surveys carried out previously by AMZ identified several sites of potential interest. The work in 2019 targeted the site of Kovači on aloess plateau on the left bank of Danube. The Czech team from ICAR was represented by Miloš Roháček, Stanislav Horáček, and Lenka Parvoničová; the activities of the ICAR were supported by the European Regional Development Fund project ‘Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World’ (reg. no.: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000734). STUDIA HERCYNIA XXIV/1, 179–194 180 STUDIA HERCYNIA XXIV/1 Due to the favourable location of the site, it had been settled not only in theMBA, but other later periods too, as had already been indicated by the surveys. Unfortunately, as aresult three of the four opened trenches had the prehistoric cultural layers disturbed by later activities (Iron Age, Roman). Nevertheless, pits cut into the bedrock were encountered in all of the trenches, dating to the Copper and Middle Bronze Age. Possibly the most interesting (and least expected) find was an uncommon Copper Age triple burial, likely of the Kostolac Culture. Also encountered was alarge amount of wattle and daub fragments indicating the presence of houses. Apossible house structure was indeed detected by geophysics on the site, which is planned to be excavated in one of the next seasons. The preliminary results from 2019 were presented at the PeClA Conference 2019 in Prague in the form of aposter by Filip Franković, Ana Đukić and Miloš Roháček entitled Hoarding Knowledge. Insight into the Preliminary Results of the Lovas Archaeological Project in Eastern Croatia. See also amore extensive report in this volume by Frankovićetal. NORTH MACEDONIA During the 2019 season of the Project Frontier Studies, Investigation into Identity and Cultural Contacts in the Border Area of Ancient Macedonia led by Pero Ardjanliev, Marek Verčík, and Petra Tušlová, two field work expeditions took place, following aprevious study season. The first expedition to the Lake Ohrid region (March to April) aimed at finalising the surface survey (i.e. ground control), and verifying arepresentative amount of archaeological sites, whose position and character is roughly described in the Archaeological Map of Macedonia (Археолошка карта на република Македонија). Based on the results of the first field work in 2017, the investigation was extended by aspecialised team consisting of epigraphers from the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy by the German Archaeological Institute (Saskia Kerschbaum) and the National Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia in Skopje (Slavica Babamova). Both teams engaged in detecting new archaeological sites or hitherto unknown spolia and inscriptions, and revealing new hypotheses concerning historical roads in the region. Moreover, the data collected during the surveys represent the starting point for further investigation with the objective of gaining stratified material from the detected and verified sites, which will provide amore differentiated picture of the habitation in the region during the 1st millennium BCE. The second expedition took place in September ‑October and focused on the investigation of the geological and paleo ‑environmental development in the Lake Ohrid region in prehistory and antiquity. For this reason, the ICAR ‑Macedonian team was complemented by specialists from the LAPE Laboratory at the České Budejovice University (Jaromír Beneš) and Czech Ge‑ ological Service (Jan Hošek). The joint team worked for three weeks on several sites around the city of Ohrid, conducting geological prospections. Two trenches were unearthed in the vicinity of the lakeshore and three corings further north in the alluvium of the Daljan River in order to determine the development of the lake level and the extent of the inundation in the past. During the excavation at the site Grashnica underneath the acropolis of the ancient Lychnidos (modern ‑day Ohrid), an occupation layer connected with aprehistoric palafitte settlement was detected below massive lacustrine sediment layers. This observation points to asudden geological event, which occurred during the transition period between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (1200–800 BCE)– to understand and describe this event is one of the tasks for further interdisciplinary studies. 181ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, CHARLES UNIVERSITY, 2019 FRANCE Bibracte In 2019, the joint team of the Masaryk University, Brno and the Institute of Classical Ar‑ chaeology (ICAR), coordinated by Petra Goláňová and Jan Kysela respectively, continued their work on the summit of La Chaume in alocation where– based on data from ageophysical survey– an Iron Age ditch is crossed by alater (Imperial period) road in the vicinity of an Imperial period sanctuary. Most fieldwork focused this year on the excavation of the post‑ ‑oppidum (Medieval and Roman Imperial period) strata concentrating remarkably in this zone. UZBEKISTAN The joint project of specialists from the Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, and New Zealand re‑ sumed– in the framework of the Czech ‑Uzbekistani archaeological expedition– the field work in the Baysun District of south Uzbekistan, which had already started in the previous two seasons (2017, 2018). The activities comprised of 1) extensive surface surveys in the Baysun District, including targeted small ‑scale excavations of sites dated to the Hellenistic period, as well as ametal detector survey; 2) acombined archaeological and anthropological investiga‑ tion of the High Medieval site of Lungi Tepa (in collaboration with the University of Otago); 3) preparatory works for anew project in the Surkhan Darya River Valley. Baysun District: Micro ‑region of Darband As in the previous two field campaigns in the micro ‑region in question, the primary concern of the team was to gain archaeological data on the settlement pattern of the Hellenistic period, as well as on the function and dating of selected sites preliminarily interpreted as various military establishments (predominantly fortifications) related to the Seleucid and Greco ‑Bactrian rule. Among the settlement sites that were detected in the last two seasons, some were chosen for trial excavations of avery limited extent. These included Daganajam Tepa, Kapchigay in Darband, and the so ‑called Darband Wall. All of these sites were also subject to asystematic metal ‑detector survey that brought to light ca. 1000 small metal objects. Moreover, the surface survey in the vicinity of the Kapchigay site brought to light apreviously unknown stone ‑made fortification on the mountain slope above the settlement, dated by the surface material again to the Greco ‑Bactrian period. Sherabad District: Loylagan Say During the late summer campaign, awalled site located on the outskirts of the Khoja ‑e Gur village (Loylagan Valley) and discovered by Kakhraman Toshaliev in June was studied as well. Small ‑scale trial excavations as well as an intensive metal ‑detector survey were also employed here, confirming that the settlement was inhabited in the Greco ‑Bactrian period. Unfortunate‑ ly, the state of preservation of the mud ‑brick architecture turned out to be extremely poor. Kugitang foothills The other team led by R. Kinaston (Otago) and L. Damašek (Prague) started an excavation of astratigraphic trench at the Early to High Medieval site of Lungi Tepa in the village of Kho‑ jaunkan. The main aim was to gain well ‑stratified material to create astratigraphic sequence of the High Medieval ceramics valid for the piedmont steppe region of Kugitang. During the process, several graves were uncovered that yielded well ‑preserved human skeletal remains, which are further studied by the Otago team. 182 STUDIA HERCYNIA XXIV/1 Jarkurgan District In preparation for forthcoming research focused on the hinterland of the polycultural tell site of Khaytabad Tepa, J. Havlík conducted apreliminary survey in the Middle Surkhan Darya basin. The main goal of this trip was an evaluation of pre ‑selected locations suitable for conducting the intended intensive surface survey. ONGOING STUDENT PROJECTS Visualising ancient architecture: depictions of architectural exteriors on Roman frescoes from the Bay of Naples (J. Souček) This grant project supported by the Charles University grant agency (GAUK 856218) took place in 2018 and 2019 and its main aim was to examine the architecture depicted on wall paintings preserved in the Bay of Naples and compare it to architecture as we know it from real archaeological situations in order to reconstruct how the Romans saw their landscapes, their villae and their sacred places and how this view was conveyed by painters. Among the examined topics of wall painting were the Nilotic landscapes, the sacro ‑idyllic landscapes and the villa landscapes– arather sizeable corpus of roughly three hundred paintings of varying quality, size and prominence coming to us mostly from the sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. Thanks to the cooperation with the Apolline Project and thanks to permission kindly granted by Dr.Paolo Giulierini, director of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, it was possible to study even the paintings which are currently not exhibited and are only published as rather low ‑quality photographs in old catalogues. This examination and comparison revealed that even though the depicted objects some‑ times seem rather realistic, realism was never the main goal and it was the presence of certain objects and motifs that counted and created auniversally understandable image, regardless of real world models. Therefore, for example abasic depiction of avilla maritima is represented just by its most important features– the artificial platform reaching from the coast to the sea, agarden and aporticus. Further investigation of this matter revealed that this approach might also be connected with the workstyle of the painters who worked with some kind (un‑ fortunately unknown to us) of model books, which explains the repetition of certain elements and even of whole compositions, giving the Roman landscape painting acertain feeling of modularity. These modular and schematic depictions of landscapes are not limited to the Bay of Naples, but can also be found on paintings from Rome and it is interesting to note that this tradition continued, at least in Italy, Sicily and North Africa, until the late antiquity, though we have to focus our attention on mosaics. The outcomes of this project were presented in the form of aposter at the international conference Picta Fragmenta in Naples and in the form of apaper given at the international student conference PeClA 2019 in Prague. An extended version of the poster will be published in the proceedings of the Picta Fragmenta conference and several other articles regarding this topic are currently in the making. An Eye on the Wing of aDemon as aPhenomenon on the Etruscan Relief Urns (M. Zubajová) The project was carried out under the patronage of the internal grant (SVS) of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. The grant had the duration of one academic year (from October 4th, 2018 to September 30th, 2019). The project examined Etruscan Hellenistic period relief urns with demonic winged beings depicted with an eye on their wings. The first fundamental goal of the project was to establish 183ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, CHARLES UNIVERSITY, 2019 an overview of Etruscan urns with the depiction of winged demonic figures with an eye on their wings. The second essential goal was to examine the importance of this extraordinary motif and its origin. Textile production of the Central European Prehistory in Comparison with the Aegean (J. Šofránková) The project focuses on the documentation of textile production during the Neolithic and Aeneolithic period in the area of Moravia, northeastern Austria, and southwestern Slovakia. Over the last two years, implements connected with textile production were analysed– spindle whorls and loom weights. The documentation of more than 2000 objects took place either in the museum depositories in Prostějov, Blatné, and in the Natural History Museum in Vienna or was based on publications. The implements were divided into territorial (Slovakia and Moravia) and chronological (Neolithic and Aeneolithic periods) groups which were mutually compared. Based on these factors, graphs and maps were made and the most common types of spindle whorls, weights, decoration, and material are presented. The weight of the spindle whorls indicates the production of many– thinner and thicker– yarn types especially during the Aeneolithic period. The project also discusses the difference in the amount of recovered spindle whorls in the Neolithic and the Aeneolithic periods and its possible reasons. For now, no areas specially dedicated to spinning have been recognized. The project results were pre‑ sented at asymposium dedicated to archaeological textiles in Granada. Settlement Structure of the Chios and Lesbos islands as well as the Adjacent Regions in the Late Bronze Age (K. Jarošová) The project aims to deepen our knowledge of area of the Chios and Lesbos islands and the neighbouring regions in the Late Bronze Age. The necessity of the study lies in the idea of examining the subject further as aconsequence of the large time lapse from the last in‑ vestigations made in this area, the lack of data for some sites and the need for anew up to date assessment especially of the Late Bronze Age. In addition, we miss an overall up to date assessment of the Chian Bronze Age. In abroader context, the project aims to evaluate the settlement structure especially in the area of the later so–called Upper Interface, which is defined for the second millennium BC.In order to deepen our knowledge of Chios and Lesbos during the whole Bronze Age period, Idecided to also include Early Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age periods for abetter assessment of the settlement structure. Focusing on the islands of Chios and Lesbos, the main aim is to present anew assessment of the settlement structure, introduce amore detailed approach in the description and inter‑ pretation of the newly obtained data and to show the settlement’scontinuity or discontinuity in the Bronze Age period on both Chios and Lesbos. Stress will be laid on the settlement pattern and its transformation over time during the Early, Middle, and Late Bronze Ages, covering approximately two thousand years. The presented data will be accompanied by relevant ma‑ terial showing the connectivity of the islands both with Anatolian and island cultures. As the overall cultural development in this area differs in the second millennium BC, the aim will be to find out how not only the Aegean islands Chios and Lesbos, but also two geographically distinct areas– the East Aegean and the West Anatolian– could interact with each other. The year 2019 was the final year of the project. Of key importance to the project was vis‑ iting the area of interest and the sites with Bronze Age finds, collecting data on sites, giving descriptions of the settlements and, as the main result, processing the acquired data and interpreting this data. For this purpose, aseries of maps were created in the GIS application based on newly obtained data combined with already existing datasets. 184 STUDIA HERCYNIA XXIV/1 THE MAIN PUBLICATIONS OF ICAR AND ITS MEMBERS ISSUED DURING THE YEAR MONOGRAPHS Stančo, L.– Tušlová, P.2019: Sherabad Oasis. Tracing Historical Landscape in Southern Uzbek‑ istan. Praha. 496 p.ISBN 9788024639024 Sherabad Oasis. Tracing Historical Landscape in Southern Uzbekistan is the second volume of the series examining the Czech ‑Uzbek archaeological expedition in southern Uzbekistan. While the first book was devoted to the excavations at the central site of the Sherabad Oasis called Jandavlattepa, this volume analyses the development of the settlement throughout this oasis based on important new data gained in the recent expedition. The methodology used includes extensive and intensive archaeological surveys, revisions of previously published archaeological data, historical maps, and innovative satellite images. Apart from the dynamics of the settlement of the research area, spanning from prehistoric to modern time, the devel‑ opment of the irrigation systems in the lowland steppe is also assessed. Edited by Ladislav Stančo and Petra Tušlová, this volume continues the significant work of Czech researchers in Uzbekistan, akey Central Asian republic at the crossroads of history and culture. COMMENTED EDITIONS Zamarovský, V. 2019: Za sedmi divy světa. Praha. 363 p.ISBN978‑80‑257‑2460‑6 [revised and supplemented edition]. Revised and supplemented edition of the already classic Czech book on the Seven wonders of the ancient world. The original text by Vojtěch Zamarovský is accompanied by the com‑ mentaries of Ladislav Stančo (ICAR) and other researchers, setting the history of the seven wonders into the context of contemporary archaeological research. EDITED VOLUMES J. Mellnerová Šuteková– M. Bača– P.Pavúk (eds.) 2019: SALVE, EDVARDE! AToast to the Jubilee of Professor E. Krekovič. Studia Archaeologica et MedieaevaliaXII. Bratislava. 228 pp. ISBN978‑80‑223‑4650‑4 (print), 978‑80‑223‑4651‑1 (online) An edited peer ‑reviewed volume dedicated to prof.Eduard Krekovič on his 70th birthday reflecting the range of his interests, be it Roman Pannonia, the adjacent Barbaricum, or ar‑ chaeology as part of the modern and political discourse. Militký, J.– Kysela, J.– Tisucká, M. eds. 2019: The Celts. Bohemia from the 8th century to the 1st century BC.Praha. 335 p.ISBN978‑80‑7036‑593‑9 The monograph is the English version of the accompanying publication of the major 2018–2019 exhibition in the Prague National Museum, dedicated to Iron Age civilisation in Bohemia, whose Czech edition was published the previous year. The volume consists of aseries of papers by different Czech specialists in the field, presenting various aspects of the Iron Age civilisation from achronological and thematic point of view. Intended for the general public, the volume strives to present the state of knowledge of the discipline in its entirety though in an accessible way. 185ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, CHARLES UNIVERSITY, 2019 STUDIA HERCYNIA Two volumes of Studia Hercynia were published in 2019. Volume XXIII/1 took the customary open topic approach. The papers ranged from dedications in Samian Heraion (H.L. Ringheim) and settlement organisation in the Ohrid region based on the recent investigations of our In‑ stitute (M. Verčíketal.) through the reuse of Late Antiquity marble spolia in the San Severo complex in Ravenna (H. Tůmová and E. Cirelli) up to adetailed study based on archival material tracing the fortunes of the estate of the Professor of Ancient History at Vienna University E. Bormann (1842–1917) (H. Szemethy). The volume is complemented by an overview of Gnathia vessels kept in the collections of the National Museum in Prague (H. Svobodová) and areport on surveys of Hellenistic sites in southern Uzbekistan (L. Stančoetal.). Volume XXIII/2 on the other hand focused on asingle topic which is made clear by its self ‑explanatory title Reinecke’sHeritage. Terminology, Chronology and Identity in Central Europe, 2300–1600 BC.The individual papers, first presented at a2017 conference, deal with the topic of Early Bronze Age chronology from various points of view passing from Central (H. Meller; R. Schwarz) and Southern Germany (K. Massy and Ph. Stockhammer), through Southern (D. Hlásek and O. Chvojka) and Central Bohemia (M. Langová) passing through Moravia (J. Peš‑ ka; D. Rožnovský; K. Šabatová and D. Parma) and Slovakia (M. Novotná; D. Oravkinová and J. Vladár) up to Hungary (V. Kissetal.) and Romania (Fl. Gogâltan). ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Augustinová, A.– Mach, P.– Mrvová, P.2018: Kyzyl Gul– The Relicts of an Abandoned Village in Kugitang Piedmont (South Uzbekistan). Studia Hercynia XXII/2, 121–146. Dreslerová, D.– Demján, P.2019: Modelling prehistoric settlement activities based on surface and subsurface surveys. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 2019/11, 5513–5537. 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Between October 23rd and 27th we hopped through the principal Museums and sites between Vienna and Buda‑ pest. Beginning in Vienna we enjoyed the highlights of ancient art in the KHM and of Central European archaeology in the NHM, and appreciated the recently furnished Römermuseum detailing the Roman presence in Vindobona. On our next stage in Bratislava, we visited the exhibitions dedicated to the recent Late La Tène discoveries in Bratislava Castle and to the prehistory of Slovakia, conveniently hosted by the Castle, too, as well as Roman military forts and civilian settlements in Devín, Carnuntum, Bruckneudorf, and Gerulata ‑Rusovce. Through Komárno/Komárom with the Lapidary on the Slovak side of the Danube and the Klapka György múzeum on the Hungarian side we then shifted to Budapest to be kindly welcomed at the Mu‑ seum and archaeological parc of Aquincum. We concluded our excursion in the archaeological sections of the Hungarian National Museum and Fine Arts Museum. THESES DEFENDED IN 2019 DOCTORAL THESIS Lenka Vacinová: The Iconography of Crime and Punishment in Greek and Roman Visual Arts with Special Regard to Female Transgressors. M.A. THESES Stanislav Horáček: Entanglement aNestorův pohár [Entanglement and Nestor’scup]. Miroslav Kešner: Proměna císařského portrétu ve 3. a4. století [The Transformation of the Imperial Portrait in the 3rd and 4th Century]. Jan Kocna: Vývoj obchodních stezek Maky vobdobí helénistických říší ana počátku principátu [De‑ velopment of trade routes in Maka during the Hellenistic period and in the early Principate]. Lukáš Kováčik: Exotické mačkovité šelmy vrímskej ríši: Ich symbolika avýznam [Exotic beasts in the Roman Empire: Their symbolism and meanings]. B.A. THESIS Jan Krčál: Opevnění města Milét ajeho vývoj od doby bronzové až po pozdní antiku [The Fortification of the polis Milet and its development from the Bronze Age into the late Antiquity]