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Title

Phrygia in antiquity : from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period : proceedings of an international conference "The Phrygian Lands over Time: From Prehistory to the Middle of the 1st Millennium AD", held at Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey, 2nd-8th November, 2015 / edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze ; with the assistance of Mahmut Bilge Baştürk and James Hargrave.

Publication

Leuven : Peeters, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Tsetskhladze, Gocha R.
• Baştürk, Mahmut Bilge
• Hargrave, James (Archaeologist)

Description

xxxii, 788 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portrait; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume publishes 34 papers from the international conference 'The Phrygian Lands over Time: From Prehistory to the Middle of the First Millennium AD', held at Anadolu University in Eskisehir in November 2015. It is arranged in two parts - 'From Midas to Christianity' and 'From Region to Sites' - plus an Introduction. The first part is more general, opening with six papers that touch on various aspects of Midas, moving on through the Achaemenid to Byzantine periods, linguistics, onomastics and epigraphy, borders, pottery and architecture, etc. the second part focuses on individual regions and sites (such as Aizanoi, Bogazköy, Kerkenes, Dorylaion, Midas City, Pessinus, etc.) from the Early Bronze Age to the Roman Period, including ethnic composition, the cult of Cybele and recent results. The Introduction examines recent scholarship on Phrygia and the problems we face.

Series Statement

Colloquia Antiqua : supplements to the journal Ancient west & east ; 24

Uniform Title

Colloquia Antiqua (Series) ; 24.

Subject

• To 1500
• Antiquities
• Phrygia > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Phrygia > Antiquities > Congresses
• Asia > Phrygia
• Phrygien
• Phrygia

Genre/Form

• History.
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Contributions in English, with 1 contribution in French; abstracts in English.

Contents

Preface / Gocha R. Tsetskhladze ; Introduction. Pre-Hellenistic Phrygia: Some Matters in Debate / Gocha R. Tsetskhladze ; Part I. From Midas to Christianity. Chapter 1 Phrygia: Between East and West / Maya Vassileva ; Chapter 2 Phrygia and Hellenism: Phrygian Interactions with Asia Minor Greeks, 8th–6th Centuries BC / Lynn E. Roller ; Chapter 3 Midas and Matar: The Intertwining of Phrygian Politics and Cult / Cecily Grace ; Chapter 4 To Drink Bull's Blood: An Analysis of the Story of Midas / Susanne Berndt ; Chapter 5 The Golden Midas: Phrygian Metalworking in Early and Middle Iron Age / Anne-Maria Wittke ; Chapter 6 Midas in the Trojan War: Refractions of the Archetypal Phrygian King in the Trojan Allies Glaucus, Sarpedon, Nastes and Amphimachus / Guy P. Smoot ; Chapter 7 The Luwian Origin of the Phrygian Imprecations / Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach ; Chapter 8 The Eastern Border of Phrygia / A. Tuba Ökse ; Chapter 9 Activating the Achaemenid Landscape: The Broken Lion Tomb (Yılan Taş) and the Phrygian Highlands in the Achaemenid Period / Catherine M. Draycott ; Chapter 10 Roman Senators from Phrygia / Olga Pelcer-Vujačić ; Chapter 11 Roman Fine Ware Production and Circulation in Central Turkey / Andrew L. Goldman ; Chapter 12 Phrygia in the Byzantine Period and the Continuity of the Rock-Cut Architecture Tradition of the Region / B. Yelda Uçkan and Seçkin Evcim ; Chapter 13 From the Pagan to the Christian World in the Centres of Phrygia Epiktetos: Is there Any Transformation or Transition Period for the Rural People? / Erkan İznik ; Chapter 14 Deciphering Phrygian: Blind Alleys and Viable Ways / Anna Elisabeth Hämmig ; Chapter 15 Phrygian Personal Names in Phrygian Inscriptions / Alexandru Avram ; Chapter 16 Remarques sur l'onomastique et l'acculturation en Phrygie Parorée / Hadrien Bru ; Part II. From Region to Sites. Chapter 17 The Eskişehir Region in the Early Bronze Age / Deniz Sarı ; Chapter 18 The Middle Bronze Age Layer of Seyitömer Höyük – the West End of the Phrygian Region / A. Nejat Bilgen ; Chapter 19 Iron Age Burial Customs in Central Anatolia: the View from Boğazköy / Hermann Genz ; Chapter 20 Iron Age Pottery from Suluca Karahöyük and its Possibility of Being Phrygian / Atila Türker and Mehmet Ali Özdemir ; Chapter 21 The Ethnic Composition of the Halys Basin and its Surrounding Area in Protohistorical Times and the Iron Age / Şevket Dönmez ; Chapter 22 The Cult of Cybele in Hierapolis of Phrygia / Francesco D'Andria ; Chapter 23 Midas City in Phrygia: Small Horizontal Reliefs between Idols and Step Monuments / Dietrich Berndt ; Chapter 24 The North Necropolis and a Soldier's Grave from Aizanoi in Phrygia / Elif Özer ; Chapter 25 Kerkenes and Phrygia: Old and New Directions of Research / Scott Branting, Yasemin Özarslan, Joseph Lehner, John M. Marston and Sarah R. Graff ; Chapter 26 Stratigraphic Sequence at Şarhöyük/Dorylaion: An Overview / Mahmut Bilge Baştürk ; Chapter 27 Şarhöyük (Dorylaion) during the Hellenistic Period / Turgay Yaşar Yedidağ ; Chapter 28 Studies on Hellenistic and Roman Pottery from the Kanlitaş Survey / Alptekin Oransay ; Chapter 29 The Temple State of Phrygian Pessinus in the Context of Seleucid, Attalid, Galatian and Roman Hegemonic Politics (3rd–1st Centuries BC) / Altay Coşkun ; Chapter 30 Beneath Pessinus: Archaeological Insights from NonInvasive Investigations / Armin Schmidt and Gocha R. Tsetskhladze ; Chapter 31 Pessinus: Unravelling the Urban Armature / Simon Young ; Chapter 32 Late Roman Fortifications in Galatia / Paolo Maranzana ; Chapter 33 Monumentality upon Logos: Tomb Architecture in the Sacred Area of Phrygia, Significance and New Interpretations / R. Eser Kortanoğlu ; Appendix: Conference Programme and Abstracts.

Call Number

JFE 21-1364

ISBN

• 9789042937383
• 9042937386

LCCN

9789042937383

OCLC

1135814905

Title

Phrygia in antiquity : from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period : proceedings of an international conference "The Phrygian Lands over Time: From Prehistory to the Middle of the 1st Millennium AD", held at Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey, 2nd-8th November, 2015 / edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze ; with the assistance of Mahmut Bilge Baştürk and James Hargrave.

Publisher

Leuven : Peeters, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Colloquia Antiqua : supplements to the journal Ancient west & east ; 24

Colloquia Antiqua (Series) ; 24.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Contributions in English, with 1 contribution in French; abstracts in English.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R., editor.

Baştürk, Mahmut Bilge, editor.

Hargrave, James (Archaeologist), editor.

Other Form:

9789042937390 e-book version

Other Standard Identifier

9789042937383 hardcover

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1364