International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Petr
Zykov
, 
О возможных прототипах архитектурной композиции Десятинной церкви в Киеве
Andrey Vinogradov – Denis Jolshin
, 
The Tithe Church in Kiev: A Byzantine Trace
Oleg
M. Ioannisian
, 
К вопросу о византийских традициях в зодчестве Западной Руси XII века 
(Гродно, Витебск, Полоцк)
Evgeny
N. Torshin
, 
Русские и византийские черты в архитектуре Полоцка XII века
Sergey Klyuev
, 
Three Rock-Hewn Churches of « Tigray Cross-in-Square » Type
Klimis Aslanidis
, 
The Eleventh Century “Renaissance“ in Church Architecture of the Aegean Islands
Dimitrios Liakos
, 
Excavations on Mt Athos: Shedding Light on the Building History of Some Athonite Foundations 
during the Byzantine and the Early Ottoman Period
Svetlana Maltseva
, 
The Artistic Image of a Church and Its Reflection in Mural Painting of Medieval Serbia and Old Rus’

---

899
Alessandra Ricci
Koç University, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Istanbul, Turkey; 
[e-mail]
The Architectural Layout of the Middle Byzantine Monastery of Satyros 
in Constantinople
Results of archaeological surveys, three excavation campaigns, analysis and on-going research 
are corroborating identification of present-day Istanbul`s Asian side largest surviving archaeological 
area with the patriarchal monastery of 
Satyros or Anatellon
. The site, located in the modern 
neighborhood of Küçükyalı, stood by the ancient Marmara seashore and across the 
Prinkipo 
islands.
According to the 
vita Ignatii
(col. 560D), Ignatios begin construction of the most lavish of 
his monasteries during his second patriarchate. 
Satyros 
was on the mainland not far from 
Prinkipo 
where Ignatios was exiled further deposition of his father, the emperor Michael the First Rangabes 
in 813. It is at 
Satyros
, according to the 
vita
, that the patriarch`s body was translated after his death 
on, October 23 877 and buried in a small chamber located to the south of the 
katholikon
. 
Modern construction in the area of Küçükyalı has spared what might have been the main 
core of the ancient complex, a rectangular-in-plan platform organized on two levels and framed by 
retaining walls. The lower level being occupied in part by an underground cistern and the upper 
level preserving traces of a built environment not explored prior our research. There, archaeological 
work lead to the exposure of the remains of a church whose structure survived above the cistern`s 
uncollapsed eastern portion. The building bears the likely characteristics of a cross-domed church 
with side compartments and a compact square outlook. By its south-eastern flank a small funerary 
chapel was object of excavations with further work carried out on the south-eastern corner of the 
platform. There, a large square-in-plan buttressed tower was brought to light. In 2010, work outside 
the platform to the north revealed continuation of architectural structures beyond the platform`s 
limits. Analysis of the unearthed architectural features demonstrated they were all built concurrently, 
likely part of a cohesive building program that took place in the second half of the 9
th
century.
The presentation proposes to discuss the architectural features of the single buildings thus 
far excavated, their chronology, organization and function. Emphasis will also be placed on 
the significance of this discovery within the rather modest panorama of surviving 9
th
century 
ecclesiastical buildings and monastic complexes in the city of Constantinople.

---

900
Illustrations:
Plan of the archaeological site at Küçükyalı (KYAP, 2011)
The archaeological site seen from south, 2010 excavation season 
(KYAP, 2010)

---

901