The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture from the Classical World to the Middle Ages

Michael Eisenberg is a senior researcher and lecturer in the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and Department of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, Israel. He completed his PhD at the University of Haifa in 2009. He is Classical period archaeologist with a rich field experience. He published articles and books focusing on Hellenistic–Umayyad archaeology and military architecture of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. He is directing the on-going excavation project of Hippos-Sussita of the Decapolis Rabei Khamisy is a senior researcher in the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, Israel. He completed his PhD at the University of Haifa in 2012 and Carried out a Post-Doctorate research in Cardiff University (2013-2015). His main research focuses in Crusader archaeology and he is leading the major project of Montfort Castle together with Professor Adrian Boas. Currently he is also excavating in two Frankish villages in western Galilee.

List of contributors

Introduction

Michael Eisenberg and Rabei Khamisy

1. The Early 5th-Century BCE Fort of Larisa East (Aeolis) as Part of a Multi-Centred Defence System

Ilgın Külekçi and Turgut Saner

2. The Layout of a Late Classical Fortress in Eastern Sicily: The Military Outpost on Monte Turcisi (CT)

Melanie Jonasch and Claudia Winterstein

3. Strategy Versus Representation? The Late Classical City Wall of Messene

Silke Müth

4. Apertures and Shutters at the Towers of Ancient Messene

Ioannis Nakas

5. Interpreting the Greek Fortifications in Thrace in the 5th–2nd Century BCE: Conflicts or Collaborations?

Aliénor Rufin Solas

6. ‘Dig for Victory’! Competitive Fieldwork in Classical Siege Operations

Gwyn Davies

7. Fortifying a Buffer Region: The City Walls in Triphylia, Greece

Elke Richter

8. Excavating the Hellenistic Fortification of Vergina, Northern Greece

Vassiliki G. Stamatopoulou

9. The Hellenistic Fortification of Seleukeia Gadara (Umm Qays): Form, Function and Origin of the Military Architecture at the Southern Edge of the Seleucid Empire

Brita Jansen

10. The Siege Wall at Mudayna as-Saliya in Central Jordan

Chang-Ho Ji and Chaim Ben-David

11. The Development and Function of the East Gate in Side, Pamphylia

Ute Lohner-Urban

12. The Starting Point of the Imperial Roads in Aelia Capitolina

Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah and Danit Levi

13. Regional Fortifications in the Chora of Hippos (Sussita)

Adam Pažout

14. The Extraordinary Roman Military Presence in Judaea from AD 70 until the 3rd Century

Werner Eck

15. Securing the Hostile Hinterland: The Roman Fort at Gračine and the Defences of Narona

Tomasz Dziurdzik and Anna Mech

16. Fortifications of Nicaea: The Defensive Features of a 3rd-Century CE Rampart and their Transformation Throughout History

Ayşe Dalyancı-Berns

17. Caesarea Maritima: Fortifications and City Expansion from the Time of Herod the Great to Late Antiquity

Peter Gendelman

18. Habonim-Kafr Lām: A Ribāt of the Levantine Coastal Defensive System in the First Centuries of Islam

Hervé Barbé and Itamar Taxel

19. Countermeasures: The Destruction of Siege Equipment at Acre, 1189–1191

John D. Hosler

20. Crusader Coastal Fortifications: Preventing Longshore Raids in the Shallows, While Keeping the Sea Approach Open and Safe

Ehud Galili and Sarah Arenson

21. Three Main Towers of Medieval Caesarea: Their Architecture and Function

Vardit Shotten-Hallel, Jean Mesqui and Uzi ‘Ad

22. Battlefield Archaeology at Tannenberg (Grunwald, Žalgiris): Physical Remains of the Defeat of the Teutonic Order in Prussia in 1410

Sven Ekdahl

23. Contra Multitudinem Ruthenorum Armatorum: The Russian-Livonian Battle of Lake Smolino (1502) Reconsidered

Alexander Baranov