The Bone And Ivory Objects From Gordion

Author : Phoebe A. Sheftel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Museum
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781949057188

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The Bone and Ivory Objects from Gordion by Phoebe A. Sheftel Pdf

Gordion is a paramount site for understanding the culture of central Anatolia over more than 3,000 years, from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period, but is most renowned for its Iron Age horizon, when it was royal capital of the mighty Phrygian kingdom. The hundreds of bone and ivory artifacts excavated at Gordion constitute a highly diverse body of material, and this publication presents one of the largest and most important assemblages of its kind in the Near East. The artifacts give remarkable insight into the tools used in crafts and manufacturing processes, a variety of decorative items, the artistic developments among local craftspeople, as well as indications of trading connections with other regions to the east and west. Ivory was a highly valued material used for decorative pieces in many areas around the eastern Mediterranean. The objects from Gordion are a significant addition to this corpus and illustrate both widely dispersed features common in other contemporary ivory-working centers, as well as the singular motifs and styles that developed in the Phrygian milieu. A unique assemblage of ivory horse trappings from the Early Phrygian Citadel are an important illustration of this cultural confluence. While bone was primarily used for strictly utilitarian objects, there are numerous pieces that show this lowly material could be used for high quality items such as inlays set into the wooden furniture exceptionally attested at Gordion. Even the sheep knuckle bone (astragal), decorated with incised designs and letters, gives a glimpse into the daily life in the community.

Author : Phoebe Aldrich Sheftel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:634257673

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The ivory, bone and shell objects from Gordion from the campaigns of 1959 through 1973 by Phoebe Aldrich Sheftel Pdf

Author : Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre,Ellen L. Kohler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Museum
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781949057164

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The Gordion Excavations, 1950-1973 by Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre,Ellen L. Kohler Pdf

This volume contains the excavation report for 12 cremation burials from the Phrygian site of Gordion in central Anatolia. These tombs, dating from the later seventh century to the third quarter of the 6th century BCE, were excavated by The University Museum between 1950 and 1969, and by the German brothers Alfred and Gustav Korte in 1900. The processes for interment through construction of tumulus and cremation procedure are carefully detailed, followed by an analysis of associated finds. Two tumuli of the Hellenistic period, both covering stone chambers with inhumation burials within, are included in an appendix. Further appendices discuss other specific materials excavated from the cremation burials. A discussion of the contemporary inhumation and cremation tumulus burials at Gordion in the Phrygian period, highlighting their continuities and significant differences, forms part of the conclusion, as does discussion of sociocultural developments at Gordion between ca. 650-525 BCE as illuminated by the mortuary remains. The tumuli afford insights into questions related to gender, religion, adult/child identity, trade, social status, ethnicity, transcultural affiliations, ceramic developments, jewelry manufacture, high-status artifact display (including ivory), feasting behaviors, animal sacrifice, hero cult, and widespread "killing" of artifacts associated with the cremation burials. This entirely new publication of Gordion's tumuli makes available at last the elite cremation burials of the later Middle and early Late Phrygian (Achaemenid) periods excavated by The University Museum. By including the two Korte tumuli, it provides a complete assemblage of the cremation tumuli at Gordion. They afford remarkable new insights into life, death, and an elaborate system of value at Gordion during this most turbulent century.

Author : Lisa Kealhofer,Peter Grave,Mary Voigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108787017

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Ancient Gordion by Lisa Kealhofer,Peter Grave,Mary Voigt Pdf

Ancient Gordion has long been recognized as a key Iron Age site for Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean. Archaeological research has revealed much about its sequence of occupation. However, as yet no study has explored the underlying drivers of political and economic change at this site. This volume presents an overview of the political and economic histories supporting emergent elites and how they constructed power at Gordion during the Iron Age (1200-300 BCE). Based on geochemical and typological analysis of nearly 2000 Late Bronze Age to Hellenistic ceramic samples, the volume contextualizes this primary dataset through the lens of ceramic production, consumption, exchange and emulation. Synthesizing site data sets, the volume more broadly contributes to our understanding of the pivotal role of groups and their economic, social, and ritual practices in the creation of complex societies.

Author : R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781949057140

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Lydian Painted Pottery Abroad by R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir Pdf

This book is the first major study of Lydian material culture at Gordion and also the first published monograph on Lydian painted pottery from any site excavation. Richly illustrated, it provides a comprehensive definition and analysis of Lydian ceramics based on stylistic, archaeological, and textual evidence, while thoroughly documenting the material's stratigraphic contexts. The book situates the ceramic corpus within its broader Anatolian cultural context and offers insights into the impact of Lydian cultural interfaces at Gordion. The Lydian pottery found at Gordion was largely produced at centers other than Sardis, the Lydian royal capital, although Sardian imports are also well attested and began to influence Gordion's material culture as early as the 7th century BCE, if not before. Following the demise of the Lydian kingdom, a more limited repertoire of Lydian ceramics demonstrably continued in use at Gordion into the Achaemenid Persian period in the late 6th and 5th centuries BCE. The material was excavated by Professor Rodney Young's team between 1950 and 1973 and is fully presented here for the first time. Ongoing research in the decades following Young's excavations has led to a more refined understanding of Gordion's archaeological contexts and chronology, and, consequently, we are now able to view the Lydian ceramic corpus within a more secure stratigraphic framework than would have been the case if the material had been published shortly after the excavations.

Author : Arthur MacGregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317602026

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Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn by Arthur MacGregor Pdf

Artefacts made from skeletal materials since the Roman period were, before this book, neglected as a serious area of study. This is a comprehensive account which reviews over fifty categories of artefact. The book starts with a consideration of the formation, morphology and mechanical properties of the materials and illuminates characteristics concerning working with them. Following chapters discuss the organisation of the industry and trade in such items, including the changing status of the industry over time. Archaeological evidence is combined with that from historical and ethnological sources, with many illustrations providing key visual reference. Originally published in 1985.

Author : G.R. Tsetskhladze
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004495432

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Ancient West & East by G.R. Tsetskhladze Pdf

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : British Institute at Ankara
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912090648

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On the Surface by Ian Hodder Pdf

After the excitement of its discovery and excavations in the early 1960s, the world-important site of Çatalhöyük has remained dormant for 30 years. This is Volume 1 of the Çatalhöyük Research Project series. It describes the first phase of renewed archaeological research at the site. It reports on the work that has taken place on the surfaces of the east and west mounds and in the surrounding regions. It also discusses the material from the 1960s excavation in museums, which has been re-examined. The result is that new perspectives can be offered on the internal organization and symbolism of a site which is central to our understanding of the earliest development of complex societies.

Author : Elizabeth P. Baughan
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780299291839

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Couched in Death by Elizabeth P. Baughan Pdf

In Couched in Death, Elizabeth P. Baughan offers the first comprehensive look at the earliest funeral couches in the ancient Mediterranean world. These sixth- and fifth-century BCE klinai from Asia Minor were inspired by specialty luxury furnishings developed in Archaic Greece for reclining at elite symposia. It was in Anatolia, however—in the dynastic cultures of Lydia and Phrygia and their neighbors—that klinai first gained prominence not as banquet furniture but as burial receptacles. For tombs, wooden couches were replaced by more permanent media cut from bedrock, carved from marble or limestone, or even cast in bronze. The rich archaeological findings of funerary klinai throughout Asia Minor raise intriguing questions about the social and symbolic meanings of this burial furniture. Why did Anatolian elites want to bury their dead on replicas of Greek furniture? Do the klinai found in Anatolian tombs represent Persian influence after the conquest of Anatolia, as previous scholarship has suggested? Bringing a diverse body of understudied and unpublished material together for the first time, Baughan investigates the origins and cultural significance of kline-burial and charts the stylistic development and distribution of funerary klinai throughout Anatolia. She contends that funeral couch burials and banqueter representations in funerary art helped construct hybridized Anatolian-Persian identities in Achaemenid Anatolia, and she reassesses the origins of the custom of the reclining banquet itself, a defining feature of ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Baughan explores the relationships of Anatolian funeral couches with similar traditions in Etruria and Macedonia as well as their "afterlife" in the modern era, and her study also includes a comprehensive survey of evidence for ancient klinai in general, based on analysis of more than three hundred klinai representations on Greek vases as well as archaeological and textual sources.

Author : Ellen L. Kohler
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0924171332

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The Gordion Excavations, 1950-1973, Final Reports, Volume II by Ellen L. Kohler Pdf

This volume contains the excavation report for 15 inhumation burials from the Phrygian site of Gordion in central Anatolia. These tombs, dating from the late eighth through the third quarter of the sixth century B.C., were excavated by The University Museum in 1950, 1951, 1955-1957, and 1969. The processes for internment through construction of tumulus are carefully detailed, followed by an analysis of associated finds. Chapters deal with a general overview of constructional methods, grave assemblages, and chronology. University Museum Monograph, 88

Author : Elizabeth Simpson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004361713

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The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar by Elizabeth Simpson Pdf

The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella, edited by Elizabeth Simpson, celebrates the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Forty-seven major scholars contribute to this unusual and important volume.

Author : Dimitra Andrianou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350279896

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A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity by Dimitra Andrianou Pdf

Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume focuses on the social history of furniture found in houses, tombs and temples as narrated through the archaeological evidence. The earliest furniture can be seen as an attempt by humans to enhance their safety, comfort and social standing but it can also offer opportunities for understanding human behavior, values and thought: fine furniture was among the most valuable of possessions in the ancient world so it expressed power, wealth and status. It was appreciated as art, used in diplomacy (both as a gift and as tribute) and recorded as booty. At the same time, its practical and ceremonial uses yield important clues about the domestic environment and daily life in antiquity, as well as revealing aspects of sacred belief and funerary practices. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Balochistān (Pakistan)
ISBN : UOM:39015041758213

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Mehrgarh by Anonim Pdf

Author : Faya Causey
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066355

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Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Faya Causey Pdf

First published in 2012, this catalogue presents fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the Getty Museum's collection—the second largest body of this material in the United States and one of the most important in the world. The ambers date from about 650 to 300 BC. The catalogue offers full description of the pieces, including typology, style, chronology, condition, and iconography. Each piece is illustrated. The catalogue is preceded by a general introduction to ancient amber (which was also published in 2012 as a stand-alone print volume titled Amber and the Ancient World). Through exquisite visual examples and vivid classical texts, this book examines the myths and legends woven around amber—its employment in magic and medicine, its transport and carving, and its incorporation into jewelry, amulets, and other objects of prestige. This publication highlights a group of remarkable amber carvings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. This catalogue was first published in 2012 at museumcatalogues.getty.edu/amber/. The present online edition of this open-access publication was migrated in 2019 to www.getty.edu/publications/ambers/; it features zoomable, high-resolution photography; free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book; and JPG downloads of the catalogue images.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:918077656

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A Study of the Wood and Ivory Carvings from Gordion, Phrygia (c. 750 - 500 B.C.) by Anonim Pdf