Anadolu Agency - Balatlar Church archaeological excavation
A cross, predicted to be belonged to Jesus-era, is found in a stone chest during the ongoing archaeological excavations at Balatlar Church in Sinop, Turkey.
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This video was made by Charles Grosche Sr. He was in Sinop the same time I was there. If you know any of the GI's in this tape please let us know.
Piece Of Jesus' Cross Found In Balatlar Church In Turkey, Archaeologists Claim (3-8-2013)
While excavating the ancient Balatlar Church, a seventh-century building in Sinop, Turkey, on the shores of the Black Sea, they uncovered a stone chest that contained objects that may be directly connected with Jesus Christ. Excavation head Professor Gülgün Köroğlu definitively stated: 'We have found a holy thing in a chest. It is a piece of a cross, and we think it was [part of the cross on which Jesus was crucified]. This stone chest is very important to us. It has a history and is the most important artifact we have unearthed so far. The stone chest has been taken to a laboratory for further testing. However, the appearance of the chest suggests that it was a repository for the relics of a holy person, according to the team, who showed reporters at the site a stone with crosses carved into it.'
Many churches claim to possess relics of the so-called true cross, though the authenticity of the items is not fully accepted by scholars and scientists. Protestant theologian John Calvin noted that, if all the pieces that could be found were collected together, they would make a big ship-load, referring specifically to the cross. On the other hand, the 19th-century French archaeologist Charles Rohault de Fleury supposedly said that all of the catalogued relics would only make up less than a third of the mass of a roughly 12-foot-high cross. But what originally happened to Jesus' cross, and why has it turned up now? Legend says that Emperor Constantine's mother, Helena, found the cross in Jerusalem and distributed pieces of the wood to religious leaders in Jerusalem, Rome, and Constantinople.
Balatlar Church, built in 660, has proved an especially rich dig site, as Köroğlu mentioned that in addition to the stone chest, her team has found the ruins of an ancient Roman bath and more than 1,000 human skeletons since they started working in 2009.
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A stroll through the public market in Sinop, Turkey.
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Sinop Turkey Det 4 1961 Shows first USO show at Det 4. Shows Tramp Steamer coming in. Some of the guys having fun. Me petting George the dog. The last is a show in Ankara (dark hard to see)
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Sinop Penitentiary Project for Sinopale First Sinop Biennial, Sinop, Turkey 2006, Nobuho Nagasawa
Located in an old penitentiary built originally as the city's fortress in B.C 2000 adjacent to the Black Sea, and used as a shipyard during the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman periods, the installation took place in 6 spaces of the historic Sinop penitentiary during
the first Sinop Biennial which commissioned artists to select sites and work in response to the social history and context of the city.
Bird Calling (Room with feathers)
This installation took place in the children’s section of the Sinop Penitentiary. The installation consisted of light, shadows, and the sounds of birdsongs. A few hundred blue feathers hung from the ceiling and were lit by spotlights, projecting shadows of the feathers on the stonewall. As viewers walked between the hanging feathers, the shadows cast by their own bodies overlapped the feathers that moved in the air. The only light that came into the harsh stone room was through the punched holes of a rusted steel plate that covered the three windows. Songs of the local Turkish birds enveloped the space, evoking the desire to be free from confinement.
Crossing Point (Room with a quill)
An old table found in the penitentiary was placed in the center of a dark room. Salt from the Black Sea covered the surface of the table. A large feather hung from the ceiling like a quill. The movement of the people wandering through the room caused the feather to move slowly across the salt, erasing the names of the prisoners written on the salt, while the low murmur of the local Turkish birds filled the room.
Balancing Act (A scale by the staircase)
As visitors exited the room to ascend the staircase, they noticed an old scale hung from the ceiling. One plate contained a small mound of salt from the Black Sea, and the other contained figs, which were picked from a tree located on the prison grounds. The fig is one of the oldest fruits (more than 11,000 years old), and has been regarded as sacred by many cultures. The ancient Hebrews looked upon the fig tree as a symbol of peace and plenty. Buddha attained his Awakening under the fig tree. Mohammed’s followers called it the Tree of Heaven. The many seeds in the fig are supposed to signify unity and the universality of true understanding, knowledge and faith. Salt symbolizes life (as in the expression “salt of the earth”), as well as sorrow and pain. The fig and the salt are weighed against one another, as they are juxtaposed on the scale.
Birdhouse (Hallway & Large room with speaker cabinets)
Upon ascending the staircase and passing through the hallway, the bird songs emerged again from the far end of the large rooms. The woofers and tweeters were removed from the speaker cabinets, leaving them to look like birdhouses. Eight speaker cabinets were installed in the hallway, leading visitors to two of the largest rooms in the children’s prison. Tarpaper covered all the windows of one room, which made this space pitch dark, and the other was left with windows open which allowed the people to overlook the outer wall of the prison to the Black Sea beyond. A total of seven empty speaker cabinets were installed in the large room, filling the bright space with the sound of the bird songs. Birds cannot enter, nor can the children escape the room.
Out of the Blue (Room with a birdcage and a ladder)
From the bright hallway, viewers entered the darkened room on the second floor of the children's prison, and noticed a tall ladder positioned against the wall. The windows of this large room were covered with tarpaper. An old birdcage hung from the ceiling, containing a silhouette of a bird in flight, cut out of a Mylar sheet. The movement of people walking inside the pitch-dark room swayed the birdcage in very slow motion. A cobalt blue LED was installed inside the birdcage, which was programmed to pulse slowly, resembling a human heartbeat. A slight movement of the cage made a silhouette of a bird to appear and disappear as a large shadow on the concrete wall as the light emitted a dark blue color. Furthermore, the light pulsation made a small birdcage cast a large shadow, filling the wall and the ceiling with a shadow of a birdcage, creating a haunting image of confinement, while the sounds of local Turkish birds filled the space.
Counting with the Moon (Medical Room)
In the waiting room of the medical facility of the prison, an image of the artist’s hands holding a moon was printed on vinyl and hung in front of the window, casting the shadow of the window’s bars from behind, similar to a large light box. Opposite the image was a TV monitor, representing an image of a moon held between the artist’s lips. The moon rotated twenty-eight times in a loop, suggesting the phases of the moon. Since the Islamic calendar is based on the lunar calendar, this piece is about time and the endless counting prisoners must endure as they wait in the prison, especially in a medical facility, where this piece is installed.
Is this the cross that Jesus was crucified on?
Archeologists in Turkery say that within a symbolic coffin they discovered a small piece of the cross that Jesus was crucified on. The piece was found at the site of Balatlar church in the Sinop province of Turkey and was taken to a laboratory for further examination.
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Exhibition Opening 19 August 2017
Closing 17 September 2017
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Scriptwriters : Yiğit Bahadır Kaya, Yusuf Emre Yalçın
Stencil : Mert Karaçıkay, Ceyda Kalyoncu, Oğulcan Övet
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Sinop'ta arkeologları şaşırtan iskelet
Sinop'ta Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığının desteğiyle 10 yıl önce başlatılan Balatlar Yapı Topluluğu kazısında ortaya çıkarılan ve 200 yıllık olduğu tahmin edilen insan iskeleti, bulunduğu mezara yatırılış şekliyle kazı heyetinde şaşkınlık yarattı.
Bakanlık desteğiyle sürdürülen Balatlar Yapı Topluluğu'ndaki kazının bu yıl yapılacak bölümü başladı.
Bugüne kadar Helenistik, Roma ve Osmanlı dönemlerine ait eserlere ulaşılan kazıda bu yıl yapılacak kazı çalışmalarıyla yeni bulgulara ulaşılması hedefleniyor.
İlk kez böyle bir yatışa rastladık
Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi ve Balatlar Kilisesi Kazı Başkanı Prof. Dr. Gülgün Köroğlu, AA muhabirine yaptığı açıklamada, kazının 30 Ağustos tarihine kadar devam edeceğini söyledi.
On yıllık süreçte çok önemli eserleri ortaya çıkardıklarını vurgulayan Köroğlu, bu dönemki kazı çalışmalarının hemen başında çok ilginç bir insan iskeleti ile karşılaştıklarını belirtti.
Rum Ortodoks cemaatinden biri olduğunu düşündüğümüz kişinin mezara yatırılış şekli ilk kez rastladığımız bir durum. diyen Köroğlu, kişinin mezara elleri kafasının arkasına konulmuş şekilde yerleştirildiğine dikkati çekti.
Herhalde keyfine düşkün biriydi
Prof. Dr. Köroğlu, Daha önce hiç karşılaşmadığımız bir yatış şekli. Bireyin elleri kafasının arka kısmına konulmuş ve gayet rahat bir şekilde uzanmış. Herhalde yaşarken keyfine düşkün biriydi ki bu şekilde de gömülmüş. Anladığımız kadarıyla bireyin günlük hayatıyla ilişkili bir yatış şekli söz konusu. Açıkçası daha önce rastlamadığımız bir durum. Gerçekten çok ilginç. diye konuştu.
Köroğlu, iskeletin Çorum Hitit Üniversitesine gönderilerek orada inceleneceğini aktardı.
5th International Congress Chemistry for Cultural Heritage
Merkez Müdürü Prof. Dr. Meriç Bakiler ve Dr. Öğr. Gör. Özden Ormancı Öztürk, 03-07 Temmuz 2018 tarihleri arasında Romanya/Bükreş'te düzenlenen “5th International Congress Chemistry for Cultural Heritage” isimli kongreye Characterization of Materials In 19th Century Şile and Hora Lighthouses, Turkey ve A Multi Analytical Approach for The Study of Stone Tessera From Sinop Balatlar Church, Turkey başlıklı iki poster bildiri ile katılmıştır.