Bronze Stamps from Antioch-on-the-Orontes and Rest of Turkey Antiochiae haereditati latinae, terrae motu destructae anno MMXXIII

LAFLI E., Buora M.

Biblische Zeitschrift, cilt.69, sa.2, ss.227-258, 2025 (AHCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 69 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.30965/25890468-06902004
  • Dergi Adı: Biblische Zeitschrift
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, L'Année philologique, ATLA Religion Database, Linguistic Bibliography, Old Testament Abstracts Online
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.227-258
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Antioch-on-the-Orontes, bronze bread stamps / signacula, Byzantine archaeology, Byzantine epigraphy, Early Christian Near East, instrumenta inscripta, museum studies, Syria, Turkey
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this brief article we present a collection of eleven bronze bread stamps of the Early Byzantine period which are preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Hatay, i.e., ancient Antioch-on-the-Orontes in south-eastern Turkey that played a fundamental role in the shaping and developing of political life and cultures in the Greek, Roman and Byzantine East for more than a millennium. Eleven items are catalogued here in detail and identified as Late Antique-Early Byzantine bread stamps with, for the most part, Christian symbolism or connotations. At appendix 1 at the end of the paper seven Roman and Early Byzantine bronze and terracotta stamps from Turkish museums in eastern central Turkey and at appendix 2 two Early Byzantine bronze objects with monograms from the Archaeological Museum of Izmir are treated.