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- New Inscriptions from Idyma
Authors: Güray ÜNVER
Abstract: This article presents four new inscriptions from the Karian city of Idyma. The inscriptions were found during the surveys and excavations on the site between the years 2019 and 2022. Two of the inscriptions (nos 1 and 2) are from an artificial terrace on the southern slope of Küçük Asar hill, which may have been an important part of the urban centre of Idyma in the Hellenistic period. The inscription no. 1 belongs to an al-tar of Arsinoe II Philadelphos. It shows that Idyma was under Ptolemaic control in the early 260s BC. The epidosis list no. 2 provides direct evidence that the city was part of the Rhodian Peraia in 175 BC. It is dated by the Rhodian eponymous priest and the board of prytaneis of Idyma. The subscription aimed to finance a palaistra. Among the fifteen subscribers whose names are preserved there are also the Rhodian governor in charge of the city (epistates) and two Rhodian military officials (hegemones). The fragmentary inscriptions nos 3 and no. 4 were excavated in the ruins of the medieval castle at İnişdibi. The inscription no. 3 is a dedication of the κοινὸν τῶν ἐρανι[σ τῶν Δω]ριῶν' for Artemi[doros]. The association was possibly named after its founder (Doros'). The designation of this private association as κοινὸν τῶν ἐρανιστῶν indicates Rhodian influence. The last inscription is very fragmentary. It probably contains a decree of the city in honour of an unknown Rhodian.
PubDate: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +030
- An Epitaph with a Funeral Banquet Relief from Amaseia in the Mekhitarist
Monastery in Vienna
Authors: Benjamin SCHROTT
Abstract: The pediment stele in the Vienna Mekhitarist Monastery probably originates from Amaseia in Pontus and arrived in Austria between 1866 and 1918. In the Greek funerary inscription Artemon, son of Artemon, and Valeria, daughter of Valerius, are specified as the grave owners. The fact that father and son bear the same name is indicated by an unusual scribal abbreviation of homonymy. The date of the inscription is given as the year 157; since the evidence suggests that the inscription had been originally erected in Amaseia, this date should correspond to the year 155/6 CE.
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- Zagabas and the Use of Lycian B
Authors: Diether SCHÜRR
Abstract: The legend on a Lycian coin (around 450 BC) is read Zagabas instead of Zagabah, only attested later as the genitive of a toponym. This will be the genitive form characteristic of Lycian B, which is otherwise only attested in poems, and thus the first clear evidence of use other than in verse.
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- New Texts on the Artemision of Ephesos III: Neopoioi Inscriptions
Authors: Vera HOFMANN
Abstract: The Neopoioi were not only responsible for building and repairing measures in the Artemision, but also for its safety and administration. In preparation for a corpus fascicle (TAM VI 1: cult personnel of Artemis) I publish in this article eight new inscriptions from Ephesos that mention neopoioi. Due to their fragmentary condition, the type of inscription could not always be determined beyond doubt, but no. 1–4 are presumably lists and dedications. The Caesia mentioned in no. 2 is likely identical with an already known female prytanis. In no. 8 the adjective νεοποιϊκός is attested for the first time in Ephesos.
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- A Funerary Epigram with a Quotation from Odyssey I 4, Found at the
Junction of the Asian–Galatian Border
Authors: Paweł NOWAKOWSKİ; Hale GÜNEY
Abstract: This paper presents a new funerary epigram recorded in Özdenk village in Alpu District, Eskişehir during the survey of 2019. The stone was brought from a place called Ayvalı in Belkese village nearby. Twenty-one lines of the inscription have survived, but are worn to a certain extent and not completely legible. Interestingly, two verses are probably quoted from the Odyssey. Other Homeric reminiscences are present throughout the text. The inscription praises the virtues and deplores the ill fate of a deceased man who orphaned a son. It ends with an imprecation in prose. The vocabulary, phrasing and contents may point to the same authorship as in the case of two other verse epitaphs from the nearby imperial estate of the Choria Considiana. The date of the inscription is probably the second half of the first or first half of the second century C.E., based on parallels with other inscriptions from this area, and on the letter shapes.
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- New Christian Inscriptions from Saimbeyli in Southeast Cappadocia
Authors: Ferit BAZ
Abstract: The article presents four Christian inscriptions from the district Saimbeyli in Southeast Cappadocia. The inscriptions nos. 1–3 were found in the ruins of a church in Cumhurlu. No. 1 mentions the patrons of the church (Hagios Georgios and Eustathios). No. 2, erected by the chorepiskopos Euplokos in fulfillment of a vow, contains an acclamation at the end. No. 3 is the funerary inscription of a woman named Kalissora. It is composed as a dialogue between the deceased woman (Kalissora) and the Virgin Mary. The last in-scription was found in the neighbouring village Cıvıklı. It was part of the funerary monument of the deacon Georgius. Remains of a church are also attested in the village.
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- On the Order of the Severan Family in IGR IV 881, a Building Inscription
from Takina in Lycia-Pamphylia under the proconsul Tarius Titianus
Authors: Werner ECK
Abstract: An examination of the building inscription from Takina, which has been known since the early 19th century and reports the construction of a bath, leads to the following results: In line 2, behind the name of Caracalla stood that of his brother Geta, in line 3, which was also erased, after Iulia Domna, the name of Plautilla, Caracalla’s wife. Thus, the governorship of C. Iulius Tarius Titianus, mentioned in the building inscription, can be dated between 202 and 205 with certainty.
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- The Stephanephorate of Apollo and the Historical Context of the Milesian
Decree for Queen Apama (I.Didyma 480)
Authors: Altay COŞKUN
Abstract: Soon after the Battle of Ipsos (301 BCE), the Milesians honoured king Seleukos I, his son Antiochos (I), and his wife, queen Apama, in gratitude for promising to rebuild the Apollo temple at Didyma and erecting a stoa. The decrees for Antiochos (I.Didyma 479) and Apama (I.Didyma 480) are largely extant, and the latter provides the chronological anchor for all three honours. It mentions Apollo as , under whom the fi-nancial officials (anataktai) were to procure the funds for the queen’s statue. In the standard edition of the text, Albert Rehm identified this stephanephorate with the year 299/8 BCE, but failed to see that it rather constitutes a terminus ante quem for the decree. The exceptional financial strain on the Milesians may already have resulted in postponing the order of the equestrian statue of Antiochos from perhaps fall 300 BCE to spring 299 BCE. This slightly adjusted timeline invites us to reconsider other aspects of dynastic history under the Diadochs. Contrary to the common opinion, the wedding of Seleukos and Stratonike, the daughter of Demetrios I, in 300 BCE does not constitute a terminus ante quem for honouring Apama, the first wife at a polygamous court, but rather a terminus a quo, since it sealed the reconciliation with Demetrios after the Battle of Ipsos. The Seleukid benefaction should be viewed within the context of a joint peace initiative that Demetrios and Seleukos started from Rhosos. It is also reflected in the mission of Nikagoras of Rhodes to Ephesos (I.Ephesos V 1453). In this context, the Milesian embassy was invited to the Seleukid court, offered the benefactions, and had their fellow citizens respond with three honorific decrees.
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- North Anatolian Rivers and the Chronology of Xenophon’s Anabasis: A
Note on An. 5.6
Authors: Tønnes BEKKER-NİELSEN
Abstract: The dating of the expedition of the Ten Thousand to Persia and their long march home to Greece described in the Anabasis of Xenophon has been debated for over a century. Some researchers now favour a late departure from Sardis over the early date preferred by earlier commentators. One further argument for a late chronology which has failed to attract scholarly attention can be found in the description of four north Anatolian rivers offered by the Sinopean ambassador Hecatonymus in book five of the Anabasis. Had this speech been given in May or June, as according to the early chronology, the rivers would have been at their lowest level by the time the Greek army reached them. If, on the other hand, the speech was held in August or September with the autumn rains approaching, the rivers were likely to swell and present an obstacle to further progress overland through Paphlagonia.
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- Stratonikeian Incerta.** I.Stratonikeia 1504: a fragment of a letter to
the Chrysaoreis
Authors: Riet VAN BREMEN
Abstract: An attempt is made here to reconstruct the text and to make sense of a tantalising small Hellenistic fragment from Stratonikeia in Karia (I. Stratonikeia 1504). It is argued that the fragment most probably belongs to a letter written by an agent of the Antigonid king Philip V to the league of the Chrysaoreis and that it was inscribed in the sanctuary of Chrysaorian Zeus.
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- A Hellenistic Decree from Apollonia under Salbake
Authors: Peter THONEMANN
Abstract: The author identifies a fragmentary honorific decree in the Archaeological Museum of Denizli-Hierapolis as the upper part of a long-known Hellenistic decree from Apollonia under Salbake in honour of the ambassador Pamphilos, dating shortly after 188 BC. The author proposes various new readings and restorations to the text of the upper part of the decree.
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- Trqqas asati: A Lycian Formula with a Long Prehistory
Authors: Diether SCHÜRR
Abstract: A Mesopotamian formula was taken over by the Hittite kings and, for a short time, also represented on seals and a rock relief. It was also translated into the imperial Luwian of the hieroglyphic royal inscriptions and reappeared, long after the end of the Hittite empire, in Late Luwian inscriptions in varying forms. It is also reflected in personal names, showing diffusion from Cilicia to the west, as documented later on by scattered attestations in mainly Greek inscriptions. The formula itself was used in the long Lycian inscription of the agora-pillar in Xanthos ((TL 44b, 37; late 5th c. BC), no longer betokening a personal relation with the god, how-ever, but royal rule as esteemed by the god.
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- New Inscriptions from the Kabalis
Authors: Flavio SANTİNİ
Abstract: In this article eight new inscriptions from the Kabalis region are published on the basis of the documentation preserved in Vienna (ÖAI, ÖAW). The funerary inscriptions (texts nos. 1–5, 7–8) shed light on local onomastics, inscription no. 6 is a dedication to the Theoi Hosioi, attested until now only in Phrygia.
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- Thinking Processes from the Beginning. New Greek History(s) in the Context
of Current Developments in Historical Studies
Authors: Karl-joachim HÖLKESKAMP
Abstract: Several recent overview works on the history of Greece, the Greeks and their settlement and cultural area in the first half of the first millennium BC – namely Ulf – Kistler 2020 and Schulz – Walter 2022 – offer reliable, extensively documented introductions to the current status of the international Research that has developed dynamically in recent decades. The intense debates, which are far from over, revolve around the structural conditions of the living environment – such as time, space and spatiality – on the one hand and processes of all kinds on the other –such as «ethnogenesis» and the formation of identity(s), such as mobility and migration, such as social stratification and practices of distinction, such as institutionalization, the genesis of «statehood» and the differentiation of political forms of organization. The article identifies particular focal points of these debates and presents the modern descriptive and analytical concepts and categories that have been developed.
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- The Date of the Letter of King Antiochos in Baitokaike
Authors: Klaus HALLOF
Abstract: This article presents the edition of another copy, probably made in Augustan times, of the Antiochus letter already known from the Baitokaike dossier (IGLS VII 4028). The fragmentary inscription, which contains not only the royal letter but also an accompanying letter that is missing from the known dossier, came from the «Puchstein estate» to the Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen in Berlin and has so far remained unpublished. The king's letter and the accompanying letter are dated after the Seleucid era: 169 (ΞΡ). They appear to have been written in February/March 143 BC. As a result, Antiochos VI Epiphanes Dionysos can be identified as the sender of the royal letter, who had not previously been considered in the discussion about the date of the letter and the related construction history of the sanctuary of Baitokaike.
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- The Career of Dillius Aponianus, Provincial Governor and Consul in the
Early Reign of Vespasian
Authors: Werner ECK
Abstract: The career of the senator C. Dillius Aponianus has been handed down only incompletely. In the civil war of 69 he supported the Flavian party as legate of legio III Gallica, which secured him future promotion by Vespasian. In 73 he performed the function of curator riparum et alvei Tiberis, which at that time was usually filled by consulars. Between his legionary command and his consulship, Dillius Aponianus was praetorian governor of a province whose name is omitted in the fragmentary inscription CIL II 7, 275 from Corduba. A likewise fragmentary honorary inscription from Rhodiapolis suggests that the province in question was Pamphylia et Lycia. Aponianus seems to have been the immediate successor of Sex. Marcius Priscus in 70; he was given the task of organising Lycia and Pamphylia as a double province. A later date can be excluded, since with M. Hirrius Fronto Neratius Pansa, Cn. Avidius Celer Rutilius Lupus Fiscilius Firmus and L. Luscius Ocrea the governors of the years 71–76 are known. Dillius Aponianus served both as praetorian governor of Lycia and Pamphylia and as curator riparum et alvei Tiberis for less than a year, which is characteristic of senators promoted by Vespasian in the early Flavian period.
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- An Early Hellenistic Hoard of Gold Staters in the Museum of Uşak
Authors: Melih ARSLAN; Bekircan TAHBERER
Abstract: The article presents nine early Hellenistic gold staters from a hoard find preserved in the Uşak Museum since 1992. The coins of Alexander III (nos. 1–2) were minted in Side and Babylon, while the remaining coins were struck in Amphipolis, Pella, Abydos, Lampsakos and probably Teos in the name of Philippos. Except for the highly corroded coin no. 6, the others are in good condition. Two symbols depicted on its reverse can be identified as a spearhead and a palm branch with taenia. This rare coin type was probably produced between 323 and 319 in a royal mint in western Asia Minor, most likely in Teos. The authors suggest that the hoard was buried at the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 3rd century BC.
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- News from the Sketchbooks of Rudolf Heberdey: Inscriptions from Olbasa
(Pisidia)
Authors: René CZEİTSCHNER
Abstract: This paper presents three unpublished inscriptions (no. 1–3) from the Pisidian city of Olbasa. These texts stem from the sketchbooks of the Austrian archaeologist and epigraphist Rudolf Heberdey (1864–1936), which are currently kept in the archives of the Forschungsgruppe Epigraphik (formerly Kleinasiatische Kommission) at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI). The inscriptions are taken from the notes that Heberdey took during an expedition in the summer of 1897. The review of Heberdey’s sketchbooks as well as the «Scheden» based on them made it possible to reread and correct three published texts (No. 4–6).
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