Alahan Monastery

Alahan Manastır (also Alahan Monastir ) is an early Byzantine ruins in the ancient mountains of Isauria, a part of Cilicia. It is located 11 km north of courage, 2 km above the modern road Silifke to Karaman (Turkey).

Its location on the south side of a Felsgrates at about 1200 m above the valley of the Calycadnus with a wide view and the excellent preservation of its buildings make it one of the most impressive ancient sites of Asia Minor.

Name

The ancient name of the place is not known. Hild and Bright Kemper Apadnas have suggested, according to the specification in per capita income, De Aedificiis 5, 9, 33, Emperor Justinian I had a monastery Apadnas have it restored in Isauria; However, there is no sufficient evidence to link this with Alahan Monastery.

The village below the church plant is controlled by the Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi and the French archaeologist Léon de Laborde (1807-1869) called ( The multicolored Han) as Alaca Han. At the end of the 19th century the place was Koca Kalesi ( The large castle ) called. Since the mid-20th century, the common name is Alahan Manastırı ( monastry ).

Buildings

In Alahan a whole complex of related buildings has received: in the west, a three-aisled basilica, then a baptistery and in the far east, a domed church almost completely preserved. The three buildings are connected by a 130 m long portico.

History of Research

Is mentioned for the first time Evliya Çelebi Alahan in the late 17th century; He describes the process as " a building that has only been passed by the architect recently ". The British archaeologist Michael Gough began his researches and excavations here in 1952, which found its conclusion with his death in 1973. Since 2002, research in Alahan and especially its immediate surroundings in the frame of Göksu British Archaeological Project under the direction of Hugh Elton place again.

Literature ( in chronological order )

Writings of Michael Gough

  • Report on archaeological work Carried out at Alahan in 1957 In: . Arkeoloji Dergisi Turk. 8, 1958, No. 2, pp. 6-7.
  • Isauria and Cilicia, 1959, In: . Anatolian Studies. 10, 1960, pp. 6-8.
  • Alahan Monastery. In: Anatolian Studies. 12, 1962, pp. 6-8.
  • Alahan. In: Anatolian Studies. 16, 1966, pp. 9-10.
  • Alahan Monastery. Fourth preliminary report. In: Anatolian Studies. 17, 1967, pp. 37-47.
  • . Excavations at Alahan 1967 In: Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi.16, 1967, No. 1, pp. 95-99.
  • Alahan Monastery. A Masterpiece of Early Christian Architecture. In: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 26, 1967-68, pp. 455-464.
  • . Alahan Monastery 1968 In: Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi. 17, 1968, No. 1, pp. 67-70.
  • Alahan Monastery. Fifth preliminary report. In: Anatolian Studies. 18, 1968, pp. 159-167.
  • Alahan Monastery. In: Anatolian Studies. 18, 1968, pp. 7-8.
  • Alahan Monastery, 1969, In: . Anatolian Studies. 19, 1969, p 4
  • Alahan Monastery, 1970, In: . Arkeoloji Dergisi Turk. 19, 1970, No. 1, pp. 95-98.
  • Alahan, 1970, In: . Anatolian Studies. 21, 1971, pp. 12-13.
  • The Secular Appointment of Alahan Monastir. In: American Journal of Archaeology. 75, 1971, p 202-203.
  • The Emperor Zeno and some Cilician Churches. In: Anatolian Studies. 22, 1972, p 199-212.
  • Excavation of Alahan Monastery, 1972, In: . Royal Ontario Museum Archaeological newsletter. N.S. 91, 1972, p 1-4.
  • Alahan Monastery: The Final Season. In: Royal Ontario Museum Archaeological newsletter. N.S. 101, 1973.
  • Alahan Monastery and its setting in the Isaurian Countryside. In: Mary Gough (ed.): Alahan. An early Christian monastery in southern Turkey. Based on the Work of Michael Gough ( = Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Studies and texts. No. 73). Toronto, 1985, pp. 3-17.

Writings of other

  • Arthur C. Headlam: Ecclesiastical sites in Isauria ( Cilicia Trachea ). London 1892.
  • Paolo Verzone: Alahan Manastiri Mimarisi üzerinde Bir inceleme. Istanbul 1955.
  • Paolo Verzone: Alahan Monastir. Un monumento dell'arte Tardo Romana in Isauria. Turin 1956.
  • Nicole and Jean Michel Thierry Le monastère de Koca Kalesi s Isaurie. In: Cahiers Archéologiques. 9, 1957, pp. 89-98.
  • André Grabar: Deux d' Egypte Portails Sculptes paléochrétiens et d' Asie et les miners Portails romans. In: Cahiers Archéologiques. 20, 1970, pp. 15-28.
  • Angelika Geyer: aspects of architectural ornamentation of Alahan Monastir. In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity. No. 27-28, 1984-85, pp. 151-170.
  • Mary Gough (ed.): Alahan. An early Christian monastery in southern Turkey. Based on the Work of Michael Gough ( = Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Studies and texts. No. 73). Toronto 1985.
  • Friedrich Hild, Hans Gerd Helle Kemper: Cilicia and Isauria ( = Tabula Imperii Byzantini Vol 5. ). Vienna 1990, pp. 193-194.
  • Cyril Mango: Germia: A postscript. In: Yearbook of the Austrian Byzantine. 41, 1991, pp. 297-300.
  • Stephen Hill: The early Byzantine churches of Cilicia and Isauria. Aldershot 1996, pp. 68-83.
  • Stephen Hill: Alahan and Dağ Pazarı. In: Ancient Anatolia. Fifty years' work by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. London 1998, pp. 315-337.
  • Hugh Elton: Alahan and Zeno. In: Anatolian Studies. 52, 2002, pp. 153-157.
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