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Interpreting the subterranean building (the crypt) in the northern courtyard of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Çiğdem Özkan Aygün, Ioanna P. Arvanitidou, Emmanouela G. Gounari
This article discusses a subterranean building, situated north of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which was investigated during a recent interdisciplinary survey conducted by Çiğdem Özkan Aygün. Although it is generally accepted that the edifice had more than one phase of use, the date of its original construction and utilisation has been problematic since the building is not mentioned in any written
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Cosmopolitan Capito: architectural benefaction by a Roman official in Late Julio-Claudian Miletus Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Julia Tomas
This article explores the architectural benefactions of Gnaeus Vergilius Capito, a wealthy resident of Late Julio-Claudian Miletus, who held a number of positions in the Roman imperial administration prior to constructing the baths and theatre stage building in his home city. Through a detailed study of the archaeological and epigraphic evidence associated with Vergilius Capito, this article sheds
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The episcopal palace of Parnassos in Cappadocia and its Early Byzantine floor mosaics Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Melih Arslan, Philipp Niewöhner, Yavuz Yeğin
The Roman mansio or way station and Byzantine bishopric of Parnassos in Cappadocia is chiefly known through inscriptions and bishops’ lists and identified with the small Turkish village of Parlasan/Değirmenyolu. It came as a surprise when a salvage excavation unearthed a large building with sumptuous floor mosaics beyond the outskirts of the village. Previous excavation reports misrepresented the building
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Theches: an elusive mountain Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Shane G. Brennan, Christopher J. Tuplin
This article deals with the location of Mount Theches, the vantage point from which Xenophon’s Ten Thousand famously got their first sight of the sea after a long and arduous march across eastern Anatolia. It discusses what the written sources can and cannot tell us about this iconic spot, comments on the currently favoured identification (stressing its dependence on an assumption about the route the
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Aegean and Aegeanising Geometric pottery at Kinet Höyük: new patterns of Greek pottery production, exchange and consumption in the Mediterranean Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Stefanos Gimatzidis, Marie-Henriette Gates, Gunnar Lehmann
This paper examines the Aegean and Aegeanising ceramic wares of Geometric type that were recovered in excavations at the Cilician seaport of Kinet Höyük. Its Geometric pottery assemblage, published here for the first time, is among the largest found so far in the eastern Mediterranean and provides the starting point for a new reconstruction of Greek pottery consumption patterns in the eastern Mediterranean
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Who were the Lelegians? Interrogating affiliations, boundaries and difference in ancient Caria Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Jana Mokrišová
Who were the Lelegians? Ancient Greek and Latin texts refer to the Lelegians as an indigenous people, locating them in southwestern Anatolia in a region known in historical times as Caria. Yet attempts to find evidence for the Lelegians ‘on the ground’ have met with questionable success. This paper has two aims. First, it provides an up-to-date picture of the archaeology of ancient Caria and shows
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In search of Tabal, central Anatolia: Iron Age interaction at Alişar Höyük Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Lisa Kealhofer, Peter Grave, Ben Marsh
Trajectories of social complexity following socio-political collapse have provided fertile ground for new theoretical and methodological perspectives in archaeology. Here we investigate ceramics from the site of Alişar Höyük, a settlement that was likely part of the Iron Age polity of Tabal. Best known from Assyrian texts, Tabal emerged in central Anatolia after the Late Bronze Age Hittite collapse
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Kababurun: investigations of an eastern Aegean village in the Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age transition Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Çiler Çilingiroğlu, Christoph Schwall, Ece Sezgin, Canan Çakırlar
The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) 1 are dynamic prehistoric eras, encapsulating crucial political, social and economic developments in western Anatolia and the adjacent regions. Although recent fieldwork and synthesis on this transition in western Turkey provide a general framework for this important transitional period, we still lack a holistic understanding of settlement types, subsistence
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Reliquary crosses from Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias: intimacy and archaeology Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Hugh G. Jeffery
Worn constantly on the chest, reliquary crosses were intimately implicated in the lives of medieval people. Previous studies of such crosses have tended to consider them as tools through which people achieved specific ends, either as prophylactics against disease or as signifiers of hierarchical status. An alternative and complementary interpretation would emphasise intimacy: the prolonged rapport
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Regional Lydian pottery at Daskyleion: testing stylistic classification by chemical analysis Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-02 R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir, Hans Mommsen, Michael Kerschner
This paper presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of Lydian pottery excavated at Daskyleion between 1988 and 2002. Before becoming the satrapal centre of Hellespontine Phrygia in the Achaemenid period, to judge by the historical and archaeological evidence, Daskyleion had close interrelations with the Lydian kingdom. Previous stylistic and macroscopic fabric studies of Lydian pottery from
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Hekate of Lagina: a goddess performing her civic duty Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Amanda Herring
The Hellenistic Sanctuary of Hekate at Lagina represents the only site at which Hekate received state-sponsored cult at a monumental temple and a privileged place in the local pantheon. Elsewhere in Karia and the wider Greek world, Hekate was associated with magic and the underworld and received personal dedications at doorways and crossroads. This portrayal was echoed in art, where her character manifested
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Geometric interlace: a study of the rise, fall and meaning of stereotomic strapwork in the architecture of Rum Seljuq Anatolia Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Richard Piran McClary
This article examines the introduction of stereotomic ablaq marble geometric interlace into the architecture of Rum Seljuq Anatolia in the early 13th century CE. It is a study of the subsequent developments and changes to the constituent motifs in the following decades, before its eventual decline. Attention starts with the Zangid and Ayyubid origins of the technique, in the mihrabs of several madrasas
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The display of wealth, status and power: two recently discovered mid-fourth-century BC pebble-mosaic floors from Sinope Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Hazar Kaba, Eray Aksoy
In 2019, excavation in the Yalnızlar neighbourhood of Sinop, Turkey, revealed a small number of architectural remains, two stone-paved floors and two lavishly decorated pebble-mosaic floors. Both the architectural remains and the pebble-mosaic floors are rare finds in Sinop, even more so given that the floors were found largely intact within their architectural settings. These elements appear to have
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A Lord’s Prayer inscription from Amorium and the materiality of early Byzantine Christian prayer Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Nikos Tsivikis
This article presents an analytical study of a rare example of the text of the Lord’s Prayer inscribed on an early Byzantine ceramic plate that was found in excavations at Amorium. The graffito inscription is discussed in detail and the text identified securely with the Lord’s Prayer as preserved from the Gospels of Mathew and Luke. It is an extremely rare find in Asia Minor. At the same time, the
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Where to put them? Burial location in middle Hellenistic to late Roman Sagalassos, southwest Anatolia Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Sam Cleymans, Bas Beaujean
In classical archaeology the spatial aspects of deathscapes and associated funerary phenomena are often taken at face value. Beginning from a relational understanding of space, this article examines the necropoleis of middle Hellenistic to late Roman Sagalassos (second century BC to fifth century AD) within the wider context of the city. To facilitate this methodologically, four spatial aspects are
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A lead figurine from Toprakhisar Höyük: magico-ritual objects in the Syro-Anatolian Middle Bronze Age Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Murat Akar, Demet Kara
This article examines supra-regional trends in magico-ritual objects through a mould-made lead figurine in the form of a foundation peg found in a disturbed Early Bronze IVB to Middle Bronze I transitional deposit at Toprakhisar Höyük (Altınözü, Hatay). The stylised object is interpreted as a bull standing atop a peg, pointing to the adoption of hybrid Syro-Anatolian and Mesopotamian technological
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Spatial autocorrelation analysis and the social organisation of crop and herd management at Çatalhöyük Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Ian Hodder, Amy Bogaard, Claudia Engel, Jessica Pearson, Jesse Wolfhagen
This article uses spatial autocorrelation analysis in order to explore the social organisation of crop and herd management at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in south-central Turkey. Evidence for spatial clustering across the settlement is sought at different scales (house, neighbourhood, radial wedge, sector, sub-mound) in the different periods of occupation from Early to Late. The data used are
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A text of Shalmaneser I from Üçtepe and the location of Šinamu Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Bülent Genç, John MacGinnis
This article presents a newly discovered cuneiform text from the site of Üçtepe in Diyarbakır province in southeastern Turkey. The text bears a previously unknown inscription of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I. While incomplete, it never-theless gives the most extensive lists of the conquests of Shalmaneser I yet known, including a number of previously unattested toponyms. This is in itself an important
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Regional exchange and exclusive elite rituals in Iron Age central Anatolia: dating, function and circulation of Alişar-IV ware Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Elena Basso, Lorenzo Castellano, Alessio Mantovan, Paola Vertuani
Alişar-IV ware is one of the most characteristic ceramic productions of early first-millennium BC central Anatolia and the only one characterised by painted figurative motifs besides geometric decorations. The ongoing excavations at Niğde-Kınık Höyük have uncovered a collection of fragments belonging to 42 Alişar-IV vessels, and this systematic material study of these sherds contributes much to understanding
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A coin hoard from Ayasuluk and the arrival of silver gigliati from Mediterranean Europe in early 14th-century western Anatolia Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Julian Baker, Lale Pancar
In 1972 a hoard of eight fine silver coins was discovered in or near the baptistery of the basilica of St John in Ayasuluk. It is now conserved at the Ephesus Archaeological Museum in Selçuk. The coins were minted in southern France, southern Italy and on the island of Rhodes, between ca AD 1303 and 1319 or perhaps a little later. Accordingly, a concealment date of ca 1320 or a bit later is proposed
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Factoids of Assyrian presence in Anatolia: towards a historiography of archaeological interpretation at Kültepe-Kaneš Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Yağmur Heffron
This article offers a historiographical examination of how 20th-century ideas of assimilation and cultural purity have shaped our understanding of Bronze Age Anatolia, focusing on the canonical narrative of Assyrian presence at the site of Kültepe-Kaneš. According to this narrative, Old Assyrian merchants who lived and conducted business at Kaneš from the early 20th to the late 18th century BC left
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The Great Mosque of Diyarbakir: a contribution to understanding the monumental development of a site from antiquity to the Arab conquest Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Fatma Meral Halifeoğlu, Martine Assénat
Located in a central position of both the ancient and the contemporary city, the site of the Great Mosque of Diyarbakir has been a unique stage for the expression of power over the centuries. As a result of restoration work carried out in the complex between 2012 and 2017, a number of elements have emerged that may shed new light on what has so far been suggested about this site by literary sources
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Anatolian-Persian grave stelae from Bozüyük in Phrygia: a contribution to understanding Persian presence and organisation in the region Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Hüseyin Erpehlivan
This paper provides an assessment of four grave stelae that were found recently in the area surrounding Bozüyük, on the Anatolian plateau in the south of the Bilecik province. The plateau was part of the core of the kingdom of Phrygia during the Early and Middle Iron Ages, and part of the satrapy of Phrygia during the Achaemenid period of the Late Iron Age in Anatolia. The main focus is to examine
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On the Roman-Byzantine adoption of the stirrup once more: a new find from seventh-century Aphrodisias Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Tim Penn, Ben Russell, Andrew Wilson
Archaeological evidence and the text of the Strategikon show that it was only in the late sixth century AD that the Roman-Byzantine military adopted the stirrup. It is now widely argued that the Avars, who settled in the Carpathian basin in the sixth century, played a key role in introducing iron stirrups to the Roman-Byzantine world. However, the evidence to support this assertion is limited. Although
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The rock inscriptions, graffiti and crosses from Quarry GO3C at Göktepe, Muğla district (Turkey) Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Paweł Nowakowski, Dagmara Wielgosz-Rondolino
This paper discusses some of the results of a geo-archaeological survey conducted in 2014 in the marble quarries at Göktepe near Muğla (the ancient region of Caria). During the survey we examined a dossier of both already known and newly recorded rock inscriptions and textual and pictorial graffiti (prominently including crosses) from District 3, Quarry C (= Quarry GO3C). Here, we aim to explore the
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The closing formula of the Old Phrygian epitaph B-07 in the light of the Aramaic KAI 318: a case of textual convergence in Daskyleion Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach
After an overview of the multilingual epigraphy of Daskyleion during the Achaemenid period, this paper focuses on the closing formula shared by the Aramaic KAI 318 and the Old Phrygian B-07 epitaphs, which consists of a warning not to harm the funerary monument. Comparison of the two inscriptions sheds light on the cryptic Old Phrygian B-07, the sole Old Phrygian epitaph known. As a result, the paper
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Four Frankish gravestones from medieval Ephesus Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-10 Ergün Laflı, Maurizio Buora, Denys Pringle
This paper presents and discusses four Latin tombstones relating to Italian residents of medieval Ephesus that have been recovered from properties on the terrace of Ayasuluk (Selçuk), near the Byzantine Church of St John the Evangelist. Two of them, dating from the late 14th century, were originally published in 1937, while the other two, from the mid- 15th century, came to light more recently in January
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Breaking continuity? Site formation and temporal depth at Çatalhöyük and Tell Sabi Abyad Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Jo-Hannah Plug, Ian Hodder, Peter M.M.G. Akkermans
Spatial continuity of the house is often seen as crucial in providing temporal depth for the Neolithic societies of southwest Asia. While an emphasis on the creation of such continuities is evinced at densely agglomerated sites, other sites are characterised by dispersal and frequent relocation of habitation. Çatalhöyük (Turkey) and Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) appear to be at either end of this spectrum
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The recent contribution of scientific techniques to the study of Nokalakevi in Samegrelo, Georgia Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Paul Everill, Nikoloz Murgulia, Davit Lomitashvili, Ian Colvin, Besik Lortkipanidze, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Gordon Cook
The site of Nokalakevi, in western Georgia, has seen significant excavation since 1973, including, since 2001, a collaborative Anglo-Georgian project. However, the interpretation of the site has largely rested on architectural analysis of standing remains and the relative dating of deposits based on the study of ceramics. Since 2013, the Anglo-Georgian Expedition to Nokalakevi has collected a diverse
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The Martyrdom of Konon (BHG 2077): the construction of a realm of memory Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Philipp Pilhofer
This article focuses on a local martyr from a village close to Isaura in the Taurus mountains: Konon of Bidana. The Martyrdom of Konon is a late antique Greek hagiographical text centred on this rural saint, and, in particular, its inter-connection of space and time is analysed. Through the employment of this literary strategy, the region around Bidana is used as a backdrop to a realm of memory. The
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The city of Hartapu: results of the Türkmen-Karahöyük Intensive Survey Project Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2020-07-02 James F. Osborne, Michele Massa, Fatma Şahin, Hüseyin Erpehlivan, Christoph Bachhuber
The Türkmen-Karahöyük Intensive Survey Project (TISP) has identified the archaeological site of Türkmen-Karahöyük on the Konya plain as a previously unknown Iron Age capital city in the western region of Tabal. Surface collections and newly discovered inscriptional evidence indicate that this city is the early first-millennium royal seat of ‘Great King Hartapu’, long known from the enigmatic monuments
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A landscape-oriented approach to urbanisation and early state formation on the Konya and Karaman plains, Turkey Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Michele Massa, Christoph Bachhuber, Fatma Şahin, Hüseyin Erpehlivan, James Osborne, Anthony J. Lauricella
This paper synthesises the data and results of the Konya Regional Archaeological Survey Project (2016–2020) in order to address the earliest evidence for cities and states on the Konya and Karaman plains, central Turkey. A nested and integrative approach is developed that draws on a wide range of spatially extensive datasets to outline meaningful trends in settlement, water management and regional
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TÜRKMEN-KARAHÖYÜK 1: a new Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription from Great King Hartapu, son of Mursili, conqueror of Phrygia Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Petra Goedegebuure, Theo van den Hout, James Osborne, Michele Massa, Christoph Bachhuber, Fatma Şahin
In this article, the authors present a first edition of the recently found inscription TÜRKMEN-KARAHÖYÜK 1, propose an eighth-century dating and explore some of the consequences of this date for the group of inscriptions mentioning Hartapu, son of Mursili.
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Caracalla and the divine: emperor worship and representation in the visual language of Roman Asia Minor Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Dario Calomino
This paper discusses the visual language adopted in the cities of Asia Minor to represent the emperor Caracalla in the years 214–216, which he spent travelling between the Anatolian region, Egypt and the Near East. The focus of this study is the imagery designed to express his relation with the divine through the overlapping representations of the emperor as a devotee and peer of the gods, and as a
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An agro-pastoral palimpsest: new insights into the historical rural economy of the Milesian peninsula from aerial and remote-sensing imagery Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2020-02-17 Toby C. Wilkinson, Anja Slawisch
Examination of a number of satellite and aerial images of the Milesian peninsula has allowed the mapping of a large number of apparently ancient linear features across the landscape. These are here interpreted, for the most part, as relicts of agro-economic field systems of unknown date, but most plausibly established during the Archaic, Hellenistic or late antique periods and perhaps used for centuries
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Rural hinterlands of the Black Sea during the fourth century BCE: expansion, intensification and new connections Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2020-02-17 Jane Rempel, Owen Doonan
This paper takes a holistic approach to the data for rural hinterlands in the Black Sea region in the fourth century BCE to reveal pan-Black Sea patterning, importantly including the southern coast and the territory of ancient Sinope. During a period of dynamic mobility and prosperity, the rural hinterlands of Greek settlements around the Black Sea expanded in ways that demonstrate significant regional
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The formation of collective, political and cultural memory in the Middle Bronze Age: foundation and termination rituals at Toprakhisar Höyük Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2020-02-17 Murat Akar, Demet Kara
Constructing and deconstructing public spaces in second-millennium BC Anatolia, the Near East and the Levant was not only a collaborative physical act but also involved deeply embodied ritual symbolism. This symbolism is materialised in the practice of conducting public foundation and termination rituals that unified individual memories in space and time, transforming the physical act into a collective
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A desolate landscape? Mobility and interaction in the chora of Klazomenai during the Early Iron Age Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2020-02-17 Elif Koparal, Rik Vaessen
Over the past two decades or so, excavations at Klazomenai have unearthed a wealth of information about the Early Iron Age, showing it to have been a thriving settlement at this time. Accordingly, it is intriguing that systematic surveys in the chora of Klazomenai have turned up very few sites that can be dated to this period. In this contribution, we discuss the implications of this discrepancy between
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The sanctuary of Zeus Sarnendenos and the cult of Zeus in northeastern Phrygia Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-20 Hale Güney
This article presents the discovery of two fragmentary inscriptions which demonstrate the existence of an unknown naos of Zeus Sarnendenos in the northern part of the Choria Considiana, an extensive imperial estate in northeastern Phrygia. It also presents a votive offering to Zeus Sarnendenos and five new votive inscriptions to Zeus Akreinenos found in the village of Kozlu near İkizafer (ancient Akreina
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Reassessing western and central Anatolian Early Bronze Age sealing practices: a case from Boz Höyük (Afyon) Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-20 Michele Massa, Yusuf Tuna
This paper presents a detailed investigation of an Early Bronze Age clay sealing from Boz Höyük, a settlement mound located along the Büyük Menderes valley (inland western Anatolia). The artefact, clearly local in manufacture, was employed as a stopper to seal a bottle/flask and impressed with two different stamp seals. These elements are compared to all other published contemporary sealings in western
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The dualistic nature of a Red Lustrous Wheelmade bowl from Boğazköy with a depiction of a victorious armed warrior Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-20 Ekin Kozal
A bowl with an incised heroic combat scene was found at the Hittite capital of Boğazköy and dates to the end of the 15th/beginning of the 14th century BC. This article reconsiders this previously published bowl, its production history and the message it conveys. The warrior is usually identified as Mycenaean, and in previous studies the bowl has been considered only for its incised decoration without
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The development of the Church of St Mary at Ephesos from late antiquity to the Dark Ages Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-20 Nikolaos Karydis
The Church of St Mary is one of the most significant monuments of Ephesos, but also one of the most enigmatic. Its repeated modifications prior to its destruction created an amalgam of different phases that have proven difficult to decipher within the present remains. Written records and inscriptions suggest that this church was the venue of the riotous Ecumenical Council of AD 431, but the identification
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Stability and change at Çadır Höyük in central Anatolia: a case of Late Chalcolithic globalisation? Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-20 Sharon R. Steadman, Gregory McMahon, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Madelynn von Baeyer, Alexia Smith, Burcu Yıldırım, Laurel D. Hackley, Stephanie Selover, Stefano Spagni
Scholars have recently investigated the efficacy of applying globalisation models to ancient cultures such as the fourth-millennium BC Mesopotamian Uruk system. Embedded within globalisation models is the ‘complex connectivity‘ that brings disparate regions together into a singular world. In the fourth millennium BC, the site of Çadır Höyük on the north-central Anatolian plateau experienced dramatic
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Leader-gods and pro poleos priests: Leto, Apollo, Zeus and the imperial cult at Oinoanda Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-20 N.P. Milner
This article presents three unpublished inscriptions (nos 1–3) illustrating the public cults of Leto and of Apollo at Oinoanda. It discusses the non-participation of the Apolline priests in the city’s Demostheneia festival for Apollo and the reigning emperor, while tracing a relationship between public cults of Apollo and the imperial cult. Finally, it proposes to reinterpret a published inscription
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An insight into Old Hittite metallurgy: alloying practices at Hüseyindede (Çorum, Turkey) Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-20 Gonca Dardeniz, İ. Tunç Sipahi, Tayfun Yıldırım
This paper presents archaeological and analytical data on metal artefacts from Hüseyindede (Çorum, Turkey), dated to the Old Hittite period (ca 16th century BC). Hüseyindede, which is set in a rural landscape, demonstrates continuity in alloying traditions from the Early Bronze Age III (ca 26th/25th–22nd/21st century BC) and the Assyrian Trading Colonies period (20th–18th century BC) to the emergence
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A comparative study of the Initial Neolithic chipped-stone assemblages of Ulucak and Uğurlu Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-20 Denis Guilbeau, Nurcan Kayacan, Çiler Altınbilek-Algül, Burçin Erdoğu, Özlem Çevik
This article focuses on the Initial Neolithic (ca 6850–6500 cal. BC) lithic assemblages of Ulucak and Uğurlu in the Aegean region of Turkey. Ulucak and Uğurlu are among the earliest Aegean Neolithic sites, and their lithic industries were managed with specific traditions and skills, quite different from what we know of the industry for other regions such as central Anatolia, Cyprus and the Levant,
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The collapse of empire at Gordion in the transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic world Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-20 Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre
Gordion, ancient capital of Phrygia, was a large and thriving city of secondary importance during the period of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca 550–333 BC). Recent work makes possible a reconsideration of the site: evaluating its architecture, finds and use of landscape within and after the socio-economic and administrative context of the Achaemenid imperial system enables the following new overview
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Gordon C. Hillman 20 July 1943 to 1 July 2018 Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Andrew Fairbairn,Mark Nesbitt
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Rome and the Tzani in late antiquity: a historical and archaeological review Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-06 Emanuele E. Intagliata
Compared to other stretches of the eastern frontier, northeastern Anatolia has rarely attracted the attention of scholars of the Roman and late antique periods. The region is known, through late antique written sources, to have housed a belligerent confederation of tribes, the Tzani, who lived off raids conducted against their neighbours. Until the fifth century AD, the Roman approach to the Tzanic
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Taphonomies of landscape: investigating the immediate environs of Çatalhöyük from prehistory to the present Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-06 Mark P.C. Jackson, Sophie V. Moore
The landscape immediately surrounding the site of Çatalhöyük preserves topographic and ceramic evidence dating from prehistoric times to the present day. This article presents the results of a programme of investigation of the landscape conducted through analysis of remote-sensing, map and field-survey data, with particular emphasis on the first and second millennia AD. The concept of taphonomy, usually
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A possible new Bronze Age period at Troy Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-06 Donald Easton, Bernhard Weninger
Statistical analysis of Carl Blegen's pottery sequence using Correspondence Analysis (CA) suggests a gap of 100–200 years between his Troy III and IV periods. From the Manfred Korfmann excavations three stratigraphic sequences hitherto assigned to Troy IV and V appear to bridge it. This allocation is based on stratigraphic/architectural grounds and on the observable development in ceramic shapes and
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An analysis of Byzantine burials from Hacımusalar Höyük (Turkey) Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-11 Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver
The contents of 118 inhumation burials (seventh to 12th century AD) excavated at Hacımusalar Höyük (ancient Choma) were studied in order to reconstruct the Byzantine population. Overall, the sample is similar to that of other Byzantine populations: burial customs appear typical of contemporary practices, children are overrepresented, males and females are represented roughly equally and heights fall
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An Anatolian-Persian tomb relief from Gökçeler in Lydia Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-11 Figen Çevirici-Coşkun
The relief block at the centre of this study was found in 2004 in a ploughed field in the northern region of Lydia near the village of Gökçeler in the district of Akhisar, in what is today the Manisa province. A standing male figure is depicted on the block, which probably belonged to a chamber tomb. Holding a cock and a bud in his hands, stylistically the figure points to a date between the late sixth
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The beginning of herding and animal management: the early development of caprine herding on the Konya plain, central Anatolia Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-11 Caroline Middleton
Little is known about the initial appearance of herding in central Anatolia. Although morphologically domestic caprines are present from the foundation of Çatalhöyük East, ca 7,100 cal. BC, how and when domestic caprines became an integral part of the central Anatolian economy, and their Status and relationship with earlier communities, is unclear. This article reports the results of a study in which
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Phrygians east of the red river: Phrygianisation, migration and desertion Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-11 Geoffrey D. Summers
The purpose of this paper is to suggest mechanisms pertaining to the foundation of a new city on the Kerkenes Dağ, in the highlands of central Anatolia in the mid-first millennium BC. Archaeological evidence that Kerkenes was a new foundation is discussed, after which its thoroughly Phrygian culture is outlined. The core of the paper discusses possible explanations for the unexpected appearance of
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Neutron activation analysis of Aegean-style IIIC pottery from the Goldman excavations at Tarsus-Gözlükule Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-11 P.A. Mountjoy, H. Mommsen, A. Özyar
The appearance of Aegean-style IIIC pottery at Tarsus occured at a time of unrest and of movement of peoples resulting in part from the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces on the Greek mainland. Mycenaean Late Helladic IIIB pottery exports from mainland Greece to Cyprus and the Levant disappeared and were gradually replaced by local imitations. Eventually Aegean-style IIIC pottery appeared in the East
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Reflections of faraway places: the Chalcolithic personal ornaments of Canhasan I Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-17 Emma L. Baysal
Excavations during the 1960s of the site of Canhasan I in Karaman province in central Turkey revealed that the Chalcolithic ornaments of the region were both complex and varied. The ornaments of the site, consisting of beads (including pendants and plaques), bracelets and plugs or labrets, were made in many forms and from a variety of different materials, and thus hint at a connected world where ideas
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Patterns of metal procurement, manufacture and exchange in Early Bronze Age northwestern Anatolia: Demircihüyük and beyond Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-17 Michele Massa, Orlene McIlfatrick, Erkan Fidan
This paper adds a new interpretive layer to the already extremely well-investigated site of Demircihüyük, a small Early Bronze Age settlement at the northwestern fringes of the central Anatolian plateau. It presents a reassessment of the evidence for prehistoric mining in the region, as well as a new programme of chemical composition analysis integrated with an object functional and technological typology
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Surface surveys in the northern Troad and the identification of Çiğlitepe as ancient Arisbe Anatolian Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-17 Nurettin Arslan
The region known as the Troad in western Anatolia is famed not only as the setting of Homer's Iliad but also for the Hellespont strait (modern Çanakkale Boğazı) linking the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean. In addition to large cities such as Sigeum, Abydus and Lampsacus, ancient writers also mention smaller cities located on the Hellespont. In this article, the location of the ancient city of Arisbe,