Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Adalya, cilt.17, ss.221-262, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
The Hast Baths is one of the two bath complexes at Andriake; it was uncovered and conserved during the campaigns of 2011 and 2012. It is important because it provides us with a complete example of Early Byzantine baths, about which almost nothing is known in the region. For with its Roman phase it adds new information on the regional baths as well as reveals new details in addition to what is known regarding bath planning. The excavation discoveries and our interpretations are hereby presented to the academic world. The building is the first Roman building at the eastern fringe of the southern settlement in Andriake. It is located in the social part of the Roman-period harbour settlement. Along the coastline extending to its west are commercial areas. The relation between commercial and social areas is well planned with respect to urbanism. The social needs of Andriake were supplied in the area starting with die East Baths and going westward up to the Agora encompassing two social structure groups and the West Baths. West of this area is the commercial area encompassing the Harbour Agora and Granarium in the centre. The quay street extends all along these buildings on the coastline. Here the Byzantine urban system is almost the same as the Roman-period one. That there are even two baths in the Andriake in addition to the main baths in the main city of Myra clearly shows the high traffic of the harbour. Thus visitors to the harbour did not have to go to Myra for bathing and similar needs.