Sling bullets from the Archaeological Museum of Hatay (ancient Antioch) in south-eastern Turkey

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Laflı E., Buora M.

DACIA, cilt.65, ss.163-171, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 65
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Dergi Adı: DACIA
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: FRANCIS, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, L'Année philologique
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.163-171
  • Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Keywords: sling bullets, Archaeological Museum of Hatay, Antioch‑on‑the‑Orontes, Seleucia Pieria, south‑eastern Turkey, Asia Minor, north‑western Syria, Hellenistic period, Roman period, Greek epigraphy, instrumenta inscripta Abstract: In this short paper, 16 formerly unpublished or less‑known lead sling bullets from Antioch‑on‑the‑Orontes and its environs in south‑eastern Turkey are presented. Publications on sling bullets are seldom among the archaeological literature on Asia Minor. The article enriches the corpus of sling bullets as it brings new items collected during ca. 90 years of existence of the Archaeological Museum of Hatay from 1934 until 2021, and increases thus the number of Hellenistic and Roman sling bullets known to date from south‑eastern Turkey and north‑western Syria. In this collection there are almost no extant examples of a particular bullet being replicated exactly on a second example.