Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
VESTNIK VOLGOGRADSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA. SERIIA 4. ISTORIIA. REGIONOVEDENIE. MEZHDUNARODNYE OTNOSHENIIA, cilt.27, sa.6, ss.171-210, 2022 (ESCI)
In this paper a
marble slab from the Archaeological Museum of Izmir in western Turkey will be
presented, which was originally published by Anastasios K. Orlandos in 1937 and
its inscription was re-considered by Georg Petzl in 1990. Its epigraphy
mentions a formerly unknown episcopos, Euethios, who was probably bishop of
Smyrna during the Early Byzantine period. On this occasion, a brief review of
the depiction of peacocks or two antithetic peacocks flanking a vase in the
marble architectural sculpture of Byzantine Asia Minor will be presented, in
order to assign a more concise date for the slab from Izmir. An accompanying
catalogue with several examples of peacock depictions from Asia Minor was made
and a marble plate with a peacock depiction from Skopje, Macedonia is also
included. Authors’ contribution. In this
article Ergün Laflı gives a detailed description of this inscribed plate which is a valuable historical document, while Maurizio Buora analyses its inscription and
will make its epigraphic assessment as well as a systematic examination
of the iconography of peacocks in the
marble architectural sculpture of Byzantine Asia Minor through over thirty
examples in Turkish museums.
Key words: marble slab, bishop,
peacocks, peacocks flanking a vase, Izmir, western Asia Minor, Turkey, Turkish
museums, Early Byzantine period, Byzantine architectural sculpture, Byzantine
epigraphy.