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The Galatian settlement in Asia Minor

by Mitchell, Stephen, Darbyshire, Gareth, Vardar, Levent

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Until very recently almost everything of substance that was known about the Galatians was derived from historical, more specifically Greek and Roman, sources. Modern perceptions of the Galatians have accordingly not only been one-sided, but have also depended on outsiders' views…

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Cremna in Pisidia: a re-appraisal of the siege works

by Davies, G.

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The only significant occasion that Cremna emerges from the shadows of historical obscurity is during its siege by Roman forces in the third century AD. Our sole surviving source for this incident is the account related by Zosimus which, despite covering two generous paragraphs o…

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Formation of the Phrygian state: the Early Iron Age at Gordion

by Voigt, Mary M., Henrickson, Robert C.

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A brief history of archaeological research at Gordion Piecing together documentary sources from areas to the east and west of Anatolia, historians agree that in the eighth century BC, central Anatolia was dominated by people who spoke an Indo-European language, Phrygian (Mellink…

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Elementary, my dear Lycians: a pronouncement on physics from Diogenes of Oinoanda

by Smith, Martin Ferguson

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Since 1968 Oinoanda in northern Lycia has been the scene of investigations by members of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. A major objective of the work has been the discovery and rediscovery of pieces of the Greek inscription set up, probably in the first half of …

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‘A rich and promising site’: Winifred Lamb (1894–1963), Kusura and Anatolian archaeology

by Gill, David W. J.

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Winifred Lamb was one of the founding members of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, and a pioneering excavator in Anatolia (Caton-Thompson 1964: 51). Lamb had acquired her excavating skills as a member of the British School at Athens, where she was admitted in 1920 …

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‘Priam's Treasure’: clearly a composite

by Traill, David A.

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Schliemann's first campaign of excavation at Troy (1871–3) culminated in the discovery of ‘Priam's Treasure’. The find remains the largest and certainly the most controversial ever to have been made at Troy. In 1984 l argued that it was not a single find, as Schliemann reports, …

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Linseed oil and oil mills in central Turkey Flax/Linum and Eruca, important oil plants of Anatolia

by Ertuğ, Füsun

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This article is a preliminary case-study concerning the importance of flax/Linum and Eruca as oil plants in central Anatolia. Linseed oil (‘beziryaği’) was produced from both Linum and Eruca seeds, and this oil was used in Anatolian culinary culture, in addition to olive, sesame…

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The Median Empire reconsidered: a view from Kerkenes Dağ

by Summers, Geoffrey D.

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The city on the Kerkenes Dağ in central Anatolia is the largest pre-Hellenistic urban centre on the plateau (figs 1–2). It has plausibly been identified with a city of the Medes, called Pteria by Herodotus (1.76). If the identification is accepted, the city represents an expansi…

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Thalatta, Thalatta: Xenophon's view of the Black Sea

by Mitford, Tim

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The moment when the Ten Thousand sighted the Euxine is one of the most haunting scenes to come down to us from the ancient world. Retreating from Cunaxa near Babylon in 401 BC, Xenophon describes how the Greeks fought their way northwards across Kurdistan to scale the Pontic mou…

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Crossing the Euphrates in antiquity: Zeugma seen from space

by Comfort, Anthony, Ergeç, Rifat, Abadie-Reynal, Catherine

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This article reviews progress in extensive survey work using satellite photographs along the course of the reservoir of the Birecik dam, completed in June 2000. Particular attention has been paid during field work to routes both along and across the river; here it is the east-we…

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Notes and inscriptions on the cult of Apollo at Oinoanda

by Milner, N. P.

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The following inscriptions provide evidence of the cult of Apollo at Oinoanda, a Graeco-Roman city of northern Lycia, and show that it included an oracle in the Roman Imperial period, and perhaps already in the Hellenistic period. The location of the sanctuary of Apollo cannot p…

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Hearth structures in the religious pattern of Early Bronze Age northeast Anatolia

by Takaoğlu, Turan

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The archaeology of Early Bronze Age northeast Anatolia has often been characterised by the dominant presence of the so-called Karaz Ware, a black burnished ware often decorated in relief. In northeast Anatolia, this distinctive ceramic tradition is represented in the archaeologi…

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Some Byzantine bronze objects from Beycesultan

by Wright, G. R. H.

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The British Institute excavations carried out during the 1950s at Beycesultan by the head-waters of the Meander near modern Çivril (figs 1-3) may not now be of great moment in scholarly enquiry. The overriding reason for this is, of course, that no epigraphic material of any des…