Overview

This volume focuses on bronze and other metal finds from several ancient sites of Asia Minor and other regions in the Mediterranean. The chapters include analysis of pre-Greek, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine bronzes from Anatolia, as well as studies of bronzes from Georgia, Greece, Iran, Italy, Serbia, and Slovenia. Key sites are covered, such as Allianoi, Arycanda and Olba, Roman and Early Byzantine cities in the western and southern part of Turkey. The volume also contains a common bibliography for researchers interested in Asia Minor and neighbouring regions. Readers will discover numerous unpublished materials as well as new insights into the bronze archaeology of Anatolia and more broadly across the rest of the ancient eastern Mediterranean.

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Author:   Ergün Lafli
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Weight:   1.842kg
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9781407316918

ISBN 10:   1407316915
Pages:   462
Publication Date:   30 July 2021
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Table of Contents

List of abbreviations Foreword Maurizio Buora Abstract and Keywords in English, French, German, Italian and Turkish 1. Introduction Ergün Lafli Part I: Pre-Greek Bronzes from Anatolia 2. The Hittite Sword from the 1991 Season at Bogazköy-?attusa and its Akkadian Inscription Ahmet Ünal, Ahmet Ertekin and Ismet Ediz 3. A Hittite-Mycenaean Type B-Sword from the Vicinity of Kastamonu (Northwestern Turkey) Ahmet Ünal 4. A Significant Metallurgical Find from Çemialo Ridge, in the Upper Tigris Region in Southeastern Turkey: A Lost-Wax Mould Derya Yalçikli 5. Iron Age Fibulae in the Museum of Sanliurfa in Southeastern Turkey Ergün Lafli and Maurizio Buora 6. Urartian Bronze Clothing Badges from the Museum of Karaman in Central Turkey Makbule Ekici Part II: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Bronzes from Anatolia 7. A Bronze Kore Statuette from Artemision in Ephesus Kurt Gschwantler 8. Archaic Bronzes from Nif (Olympus) Mountain in Ionia (Western Turkey) Danis Baykan 9. Restorations and Conservation of Bronzes from Nif-Olympus in Ionia (Western Turkey) Ceren Baykan 10. Lost Bronzes of Asia Minor: Equestrian Images and Public Place Lucia Nováková 11. A Bronze mirror with Aphrodite and Eros from Nicomedia in Bithynia (Northwestern Turkey) Ergün Lafli and Gülseren Kan Sahin 12. A Group of Bronze Vessels from Arycanda in Lycia (Southern Turkey) Bekir Sitki Alptekin Oransay 13. The Bronze Figurine of Hercules from Cremna in Pisidia (Southwestern Turkey) Hüseyin Metin 14. Surgical Instruments from Allianoi in Mysia (Western Turkey) Danis Baykan 15. Bronze Objects Related to the Cult of Aesculapius from Allianoi in Mysia (Western Turkey) Danis Baykan 16. Surgical Instruments from the Necropolis of Juliopolis in Bithynia (Northwestern Central Turkey) Melih Arslan and Mustafa Metin 17. Five Roman Fibulae in the Museum of Kahramanmaras in Southeastern Turkey Ergün Lafli and Maurizio Buora 18. Bronze Finds from the Necropolis of Juliopolis in Bithynia (Northwestern Central Turkey) Melih Arslan and Candemir Zoroglu 19. A Bronze Balsamarium from Juliopolis Melih Arslan and Bekir Sitki Alptekin Oransay 20. A Bronze Plate or Scabbard with a Representation of Cybele/Magna Mater Melih Arslan and Bekir Sitki Alptekin Oransay 21. An Attis Figurine from Ancyra in Galatia (Central Turkey) Melih Arslan 22. Two Metal Plaques with Artemis Potnia Theron from Ankara Melih Arslan and Burçak Delikan 23. Two Busts of Isis and Two Amulets with Harpocrates from Ankara. Remarks On a Harpocrates Representation On a Ring Melih Arslan 24. A Selection of the Late Antique Metal Finds from Olba in Cilicia (Southern Turkey) Ayse Emel Erten 25. Roman and Byzantine Metal Finds in the Museum of Amasra (Ancient Amastris) in Paphlagonia (Northwestern Turkey) Ergün Lafli 26. Roman and Early Byzantine Metal Finds from Hadrianopolis in Paphlagonia (Northwestern Central Turkey) Ergün Lafli 27. Inscribed Finger Rings from Late Antique and Byzantine Asia Minor Ergün Lafli and Maurizio Buora 28. An Egyptian Bronze Lamp and Some Egyptian-Type Clay Lamps in the Museum of Mardin in Southeastern Turkey Ergün Lafli and Maurizio Buora 29. Bronze Crescent Lamps from Anatolia Ergün Lafli and Maurizio Buora 30. Bronze Lamps of the Museum of Isparta in Pisidia (Southern Turkey) Murat Firat 31. A Bread Stamp with the Expression of FOS + ZOI in the Museum of Afyonkarahisar (Western Turkey) Ergün Lafli and Maurizio Buora Part III: Bronzes from Neighbouring Regions 32. Scientific Investigation On a Copper-Based Pin from Köhn Pasgah Tepesi in the Province of Eastern Azerbaijan (Iran) Anise Soltani Nejad, Sepideh Maziar and Mohammad Mortavazi 33. Analysis of Some Copper Alloy Artefacts from the Recent Excavations in Persepolis, Iran, Seyed Mohammadamin Emami, Omid Oudbashi, Alireza Asghari-Chaverdi and Pierfrancesco Callieri 34. Bronze Objects of the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age from Luzzi and Bisignano in Calabria (Italy) Carmelo Colelli and Antonio La Marca 35. Fibulae with Representations of Deer, Ibex and Horse from Georgia Ketevan Ramishvili 36. Bronzes from the Archaic Sanctuary of Athena in the Phocian Anticyra (Greece) Athanasios Sideris 37. Study of Casting Cores and Experimental Reconstruction of Two Bronzes from Sillene (Chianciano Terme, Italy) Alessandro Pacini 38. Remains of Bronze Equestrian Statue from Vani (Georgia) Elena Gigolashvili and Marina Pirtskhalava 39. A Bronze Figurine of Actaeon from Slovenia Vesna Pintaric Kocuvan 40. Regional Workshops for Bronze Manufacturing Along the Danube Limes in the Province of Upper Moesia (Serbia) Deana Ratkovic 41. Two Roman Bronze Cultic Objects from the Timacum Maius (Eastern Serbia) Vladimir P. Petrovic and Vojislav Filipovic 42. A Hackamore from Sljivovac (Eastern Serbia) Milica Tapavicki-Ilic and Dragana Spasic-Ðuric 43. A Bronze Statuette from Gonio-Apsarus in Georgia Nino Sulava 44. Some

Reviews

'This volume will be of particular importance to the scholarly community in Anatolia as well as to those scholars concerned with the archaeology and art history of the greater Eastern Mediterranean world.' Dr Vincent C. Pigott, University of Pennsylvania Museum

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Author Information

Ergün Lafli is a classical archaeologist at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir and chairs the Division for Medieval Archaeology. He holds a BA degree from the University of Ankara (1996), a M.A. from the University of Tübingen (1999) and a PhD from the University of Cologne (2003). Contributors: Melih Arslan, Alireza Asghari-Chaverdi, Ceren Baykan, Danis Baykan, Maurizio Buora, Pierfrancesco Callieri, Carmelo Colelli, Barbara de Filippo, Burçak Delikan, Ismet Ediz, Makbule Ekici, Seyed MohammadaminEmami, Ahmet Ertekin, Ayse Emel Erten, Daniela Ferro, Vojislav Filipovic, Murat Firat, Elena Gigolashvili, Kurt Gschwantler, Vesna Pintaric Kokuvan, Ergün Lafli, Jeffrey P. Maish, Antonio La Marca, Sepideh Maziar, Hüseyin Metin, Mustafa Metin, Mohammad Mortazavi, Stefano Natali, Anise Soltani Nejad, Lucia Nováková, Bekir Sitki Alptekin Oransay, Omid Oudbashi, Alessandro Pacini, Vladimir P. Petrovic, Marina Pirtskhalava, Deana Ratkovic, Ketevan Ramishvili, Gülseren Kan Sahin, Athanasios Sideris, Dragana Spasic-Ðuric, Nino Sulava, Milica Tapavicki-Ilic, Ahmet Ünal, Derya Yalçikli, Candemir Zoroglu

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