, Walter Prochaska
Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, Band 80/2011, pp. 243-254, 2024/10/08
The karstified limestone of the Panayırdağ dips flatly towards the southeast and is dissected by three steep joint sets. At the eastern slope of the Panayırdağ, deep gorges trace the local joint pattern in two levels.
The southern slope of the Panayırdağ is hydrologically isolated from the karst system of the adjacent
Bülbüldağ. The geological data support a hydrogeological model which reconstructs the water supply of the late geometric to early Hellenistic settlement of the Panayırdağ. The proposed model describes a marine karst system with an aquifer in the level of the ancient sea level, possibly accessed by 10–20 m deep wells from the karst gorges.
