Funerary and votive monuments in Graeco-Roman Cilicia: Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine examples in the museums of Mersin and Alanya
ANATOLIAN STUDIES, vol.67, pp.145-180, 2017 (AHCI, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 67
- Publication Date: 2017
- Doi Number: 10.1017/s0066154617000059
- Journal Name: ANATOLIAN STUDIES
- Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.145-180
- Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
In this contribution, 13 previously unpublished grave and votive monuments are analysed, plus two boundary markers. These monuments, housed in the museums of Mersin and Alanya in Cilicia in southern Asia Minor, are both artistic and epigraphic documents. Most of them were made in this region, but three were imported from Antioch-on-the-Orontes, Pisidia and the island of Delos, as can be deduced from their iconography. These new examples from Cilicia and eastern Pamphylia offer insights into the different concepts of or (memorial) popular in Hellenistic and Roman times throughout Asia Minor.