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Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 1983 The Dhema Pass and Its Early Byzantine Fortifications William Joseph Cherf Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Cherf, William Joseph, "The Dhema Pass and Its Early Byzantine Fortifications" (1983). Dissertations. 2474. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2474 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1983 William Joseph Cherf THE DREMA PASS AND ITS EARLY BYZANTINE FORTIFICATIONS. by William Joseph Cherf A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Loyola University of Chicago in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy June 1983 '' ' I / ©copyright, 1983, William J. Cherf ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author would first like to thank Professor Edward W. Kase, the director of the Loyola University of Chicago Phokis-Doris Expedition in Central Greece, for his encouragement to study the late remains of the Dhema Pass. To my readers: Professors Kase, James G. Keenan, and George J. Szemler, I extend my thanks. Gratitude is also extended to Loyola University of Chicago for its support through a University Dissertation Fellowship for the year of 1980/1981, to its History Department, and to its ever-cheerful Computer Science staff, especially Miss Margaret Manella, Mr. Nick Rizzio, and Mr. David Gabrovich, for their assistance in the printing of this dis sertation. It is appropriate here also to thank Professors John Rosser of Boston College for his permission to describe the late pottery and small finds, John Kraft and H.F. Brown for their preliminary findings concern ing the sixth century paleogeography and topography of the Malian Basin, and Dr. Charles K. Wolfe, Jr. for his encouragement and assistance in the field. Finally, I must turn to my parents and sister, without whom the completion of this project would not have been possible. ii VITA The author attended grammar school in Chicago and received his secondary education at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illi nois. After his graduation in June of 1970, he first entered Loyola Uni versity of Chicago, but then transferred to Indiana University in Bloom ington where he majored in Anthropology. During the summer of 1973, the author participated in the excavation of Tel Beersheva in Israel. He was awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from Indiana in May of 1974. He then spent the following spring and summer of 1975 abroad in preparation for his graduate studies. In September of 1975, he enrolled in the Department of History at Loyola University of Chicago, and received his Master of Arts degree in Ancient History in May of 1978. He then broadened his graduate experi ence by participating in the Loyola University of Chicago Phokis-Doris Expedition in Central Greece during the 1976 through 1980 seasons. Dur ing his graduate career at Loyola, he was awarded teaching assistant ships (1976-80), an instructorship (1980), and the junior faculty posi tion of lecturer for 1981-83. William Joseph Cherf, is the son of Frank J. Cherf and Audrey I. (Zeigler)Cherf. He was born on August 30, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ii VITA . iii LIST OF MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND PLATES. V ABBREVIATIONS ....... vii INTRODUCTION. 1 Chapter I. THE MALIAN BASIN, OVERLAND COMMUNICATIONS, AND THE STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DHEMA PASS 13 The Me;idenitsa and Boagrias Valley Routes. 18 The S!stano, Gorge. 20 The Dhamasta Spur ................... 21 The Khalk&°mata Path ................... 22 The Asopos River Gorge. .23 The Thermopylai Pass. .24 The Dhema Pass. .26 II. THE STRATEGIC FORTIFICATIONS OF THE DHEMA PASS. .31 The Dhema Military Complex. .32 The Frontier System of North Central Greece ....... 49 III. THE DREMA PASS AND THE INVASIONS OF GREECE DURING THE FOURTH THROUGH SIXTH CENTURIES .........58 I. Encounters: Fourth through Sixth Centuries. 59 II. Encounters: End of the Sixth Century .... 81 IV. CONCLUSIONS. ....... 88 Appendix A. MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND PLATES. 93 BIBLIOGRAPHY ..•.... .125 iv LIST OF MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND PLATES MAPS Page MAP I: The Lower Spercheios and Malian Basin ...........94 MAP II: The Oite-Kallidromos Range ................ 96 The Overland Routes and Early Byzantine Fortifications MAP III: 1:5000 Dhema Topographical Map ..... .98 MAP IV: 1:100 Dhema Topographical Map .............. 100 ILLUSTRATIONS Illustration A: West Slope Wall B Reconstruction ......... 102 Illustration B: Dhema Enclosure Wall C Reconstruction. 104 Illustration C: Main Gate Area Reconstruction ..... 106 Illustration D: Fourth Century Fort Reconstruction ........ 108 ~TES Plate 1: Dhema Pass from the north .. .110 Plate 2: Jam! Wall A, north corner of wall. .111 Plate 3: West Slope Wall B, point 6 .............. 112 Plate· 4: Wall B, levelling bricks, point 6 ........... 113 V Plate 5: Wall B, levelling bricks(detail), point 6. .114 Plate 6: Wall B, levelling bricks (detail), point 6. .115 Plate 7: Compound Wall C, point 1. 116 Plate 8: Wall C, point 2. .117 Plate 9: Wall C, point 7. .118 Plate 10: Crosswall D, cross-section and stream. .119 Plate 11: Wall D, cross-section. .120 Plate 12: Wall D, southern face. .121 Plate 13: Wall D, northern face. .122 Plate 14: 'Wavy-Incised', 'Combed' or 'Ribbed Ware'. .123 Plate 15: Spearhead, Dhema Small Find no. 52. 124 vi ABBREVIATIONS All periodical and journal citations are abbreviated according to the guidelines of the American Journal of Archaeology. Agathias Agathias Historia, in Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, vol.2, ed., R. Keydell, Berlin, 1967. Amm. Marc. Ammianus Marcellinus, ed., trans., J.C. Rolfe, in Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, 1935-1939. 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