Stratonikeia’daki koruma uygulamalarından örnekler

Abstract

Stratonikeia lies within the Eskihisar neighbourhood, 7 km west of the Yatağan district in the province of Muğla in Turkey. The site is located on the road from Yatağan to Milas. Excavations and surveys at Stratonikeia show that the city has been settled uninterruptedly from the Late Bronze Age to the present. The name of the settlement was Atriya in Hittite Period, Khrysaoris in Archaic Period, Idrias and Hekatesia in Classical Period, Stratonikeia in Hellenistic Period, and finally Eskihisar in the Turkish period. Throughout its history Stratonikeia suffered from many earthquakes and was rebuilt numerous times. Stratonikeia is a place where one can see monuments from antiquity as well as the Ottoman and Turkish Republic Periods. Hellenistic and Ottoman monuments face each other flanking an Ottoman street. A visitor has the opportunity to visit monuments from different periods walking on stone-paved streets of the Ottoman period. Therefore the ruins from different periods are conserved in the different parts of the city. We carry out a comprehensive conservation work as a part of the excavation project. This article is about examples of this conservation in Stratonikeia.