Alev Çetingöz

Dear Colleague,

Between May 12 and 13, 2022 we have hosted on Zoom c. 50 participants from 16 countries and 45 papers dealing with fibulae were presented in these two days of symposium. Attached you will also find the updated abstract booklet. Please note that all the symposium documents were updated at our Academia account.

Publication of the proceedings of the fibulae e-conference

1- The language of the publication will be English; the only accepted language for the proceedings is English; we therefore ask you kindly to submit your paper only in English. We would like to use British English for the proceedings, as most of our participants were from Europe. Spelling can be either British or American, provided it is consistent in either case.

2- We have no limit for the length of the papers.

3- The deadline for the papers submission is the January 1, 2023.

4- Papers and photos should be submitted to the third editor of the proceedings (Dr Paola Puppo) electronically via e-mail. Here is her e-mail address: [email protected]

5- The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Europe in 2023.

6- As the book will contain only papers related to fibulae, we ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with fibulae. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.

7- If you did not attend to the fibulae symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about fibulae, you are also welcome to submit it to us for publication until January 1, 2023.

8- We are also seeking external peer reviewers for the proceedings. If you would like to be a peer reviewer for our symposium‘s proceedings, please let us know. As one of the member of our publication committee, your comments on all of the papers, such as their length, clearness and supported by the scientific data, will be most welcome. In the regards of papers you could also advise any improvements or submit your corrections about their jargon, language, organization of material and conclusion of each papers.

9- We are also seeking proofreaders for the whole volume in the regards of its English language style and grammar. We would be thankful, if you are interested to assist us in terms of language. Contributors whose English is not their first language are advised to have their text copy-edited by a native speaker with knowledge of the subject.

10- Images of your papers should be in colour and have at least 600 dpi. Please note that lower resolutions will result a reduction or a suppression of the publication. We will of course keep photos in colour in pdf offprints and digital version of the book.

11- Each author must hold the copyrights of all of the images. If you wish to use images that have been originated by someone else (i.e. previously published material), then you need to seek permission to reproduce each item in your paper. Please bear this in mind this when preparing the images of your manuscript. Permission from third parties could be requested by the publisher.

12- Each of the papers will be sent to anonymous peer reviewers enlisted by the Publisher before they are accepted for publication. Academic standards, originality, and a good level of English language will be the main criteria for selection.

13- We will also produce pdf offprints and each participant will receive whichever pdf offprints she/he wants for free.

14- Unfortunately, the proceedings volume cannot be donated to the authors for free.

Publication rules

1- Texts should be designed in the following order: Title, author(s)‘ name(s), academic affiliation, e-mail address and postal address, key-words in English, text (introduction, presentation, conclusion and catalogue), bibliography, figure captions and credits. Texts should be submitted as word datas (please not as pdf) and figures should be submitted as JPEG (please not as pdf). All figures, tables and illustrations should be submitted as separate files and not in the text. We kindly ask you to follow up publication rules explained hereby so that publication of the proceedings will not be delayed because of unnecessary reformattings.

2- Your text should be desiged in Times New Roman 12 pt with footnotes in 10 pt., all in single-lined.

3- Please provide all lists or tables in word, not in Excel and without any footnotes.

4- For illustrations, please provide figure captions and authorizations of reproduction at the end of your paper, before the bibliography. For each illustration the authors must obtain an authorization of reproduction. The editors and the publisher have the right for not accepting illustrations that could accuse problems with copyright.

5- Please use in-text citations to reference published works [i.e. “(Smith, 1998: 67, fig. 2)”] and use footnotes for further information, clarifications and/or comments.

6- All Latin words should be quoted in italics, without quotation marks.

7- Examples for the abbreviations of books in the bibliography:

Hortsmanhoff M., King H., Zittel Cl. (eds) (2012), Blood, sweat and tears. The changing Concepts of physiology from antiquity into modern early Europe, Leiden.

Espinosa D. (2013), Plinio y los “oppida de antiguo Lacio”. El proceso de difusión del Latium en Hispania Citerior, Madrid.

Schepartz L. A., Fox S. C., Bourbou C. (2009), New directions in the skeletal biology of Greece, Hesperia suppl. 43 or Schepartz L. A., Fox S. C., Bourbou C. (2009), New directions in the skeletal biology of Greece, Athens (Hesperia suppl. 43).

8- An example for the abbreviations of proceedings in the bibliography:

Laurent J. (ed.) (2003), Les dieux de Platon, actes du colloque organisé à l'Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie, les 24, 25 et 26 janvier 2002, Caen.

Please do not forget to add (ed.) or (eds) to the name of the editors!

9- An example for the abbreviations of the journal articles in the bibliography:

Valdés Guía M. (2000), « La apertura de una zona político-religiosa en los orígenes de la
polis de Atenas », Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne, 26/1, p. 35-55.

10- An example for the abbreviations of the articles in a collective book in the bibliography:

Mehl V. (2008), « Corps iliadiques, corps héroïques », in V. Dasen, J. Wilgaux (eds), Langages et métaphores du corps, Rennes, p. 29-42.

11- References for the ancient sources should be developed separately in the bibliography under the title “Ancient sources”. For example:

Desrousseaux A. M. (1956), Athénée de Naucratis, Les Deipnosophistes, books I and II, Paris.

12- References for the ancient sources should be given in footnotes, using Roman numerals for books, and without abbreviations. Use commas rather than colons. For example: Xenophon, Anabasis, II, 3, 3.

13- In the references of the epigraphic collections, quoted corpara should be in italics. In the quotations of each inscription there should be no comma between the volume number in Roman numeral and the number of inscription in Arabic numeral, but a space between them. For example:

CIL XIII 8553; ILS II 5318; P. Lond. V 1657.

14- An example for the abbreviations of the articles in an encyclopedia in the bibliography:

Jessen O. (1913), s.u. « Helios », RE, VIII, col. 58-93.

15- As a general reference, and for all issues not mentioned here, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style Online. Here is its website: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html

A fibula is a brooch or pin for fastening garments, typically at the right shoulder. The fibula developed in a variety of shapes, but all were based on the safety-pin principle. Unlike most modern brooches, fibulae were not only decorative; they originally served a practical function: to fasten clothing, such as cloaks. In English, "fibula" is not a word used for modern jewellery, but by archaeologists, who also use "brooch", especially for types other than the ancient "safety pin" types, and for types from the British Isles.
This virtual conference focuses on ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine fibulae in entire Mediterranean area from the eighth century B.C. to seventh century A.D. The concentrated areas are Italy, Greece, Turkey, Near East, Spain and Portugal as well as North Africa.

We are organizing an international e-conference entitled “Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine engraved gems in the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea area” that will take place on March 11-12, 2021 on Zoom.us. We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate students from a variety of disciplines of ancient studies related to these objects. The e-conference is free of charge. We would be delighted, if you could consider contributing to our video conference and contact us with the required information on the first circular before January 1, 2021. Our e-mail addresses are: [email protected] or [email protected]

This video conference was held on May 14-15, 2020 on zoom.us. There were more than 39 paper applications from 12 countries, including -in alphabetical order- Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey and the U.S.A., 32 of which were accepted as a lecture to be presented at our video conference.
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
Our culture is to deliver happiness to our conference participants. We therefore value the input of each one of our participants and would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide so that we can better meet your needs going forward for our future e-conferences. Thank you.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.

Records of the e-conference in YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89iPO_6ujofOfBo_I3IG1nwsf0bTyEWy

This current draft is a preliminary version of the proceedings of a video conference on Cappadocia and Cappadocians that was held on May 1415, 2020 on Zoom and therefore page numbers are subject to change. We should note that after producing an e-book, we will have a second and refined print-out version of the proceedings which will likely be published in Oxford in 2022. In this last version we will not include any abstracts any longer and it will only contain full papers.
The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below. The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.

All records of the e-conference in YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89iPO_6ujofOfBo_I3IG1nwsf0bTyEWy

In Cilicia, an ancient region on the southeastern coast of Turkish Mediterranean, there were certainly more than one coroplastic workshop that concentrated on the production of terracotta figurines, either of divinities or as ornaments or toys, as Jaimee Uhlenbrock has pointed out several times. The protracted use of the same moulds over time favoured the conservation of manufacturers and clients. At the temples and sanctuaries of the ancient Greek or Hellenized world in the eastern Mediterranean there were certainly deposits of thousands of statuettes, as revealed by the ninety thousand of figurines found in a cave near Delphi dedicated to Pan and the Nymphs or the tens of thousands at the Heraion at the mouth of the Sele River, Paestum or the 4,500 figurines dedicated to the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in Cyrene, but also the thousands of figurines brought to light by the Swedish expedition to Cyprus.
A large number of figurines, both intact and fragments, coming from the excavations at Antioch-on-the-Orontes and Tarsus were published in the volumes dedicated to the archaeological investigations on these sites (e.g. Goldman 1943) and were then published as a whole (Goldman 1950). At the same years terracottas in large numbers were published from Cyprus, such as e.g. from Kourion (Young, Young 1955). Since these publications, the coroplastic production of Tarsus is well known and the recent Italian investigations in Elaiussa Sebaste in eastern Rough Cilicia have confirmed the great abundance of models and the commercialization capacity of the Tarsian workshops during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. In addition to the mixture of oriental themes, personalities and features typical of Tarsian coroplastic production are some characteristic iconographic motifs and certain compositional or typological details, including the high base.
The limited choice of about fifty figurines presented in this paper are collected from the Turkish local museums in ancient Cilicia, from west to east, Alanya, Anamur, Silifke, Mersin, Tarsus, Adana and Osmaniye, and consists of some formerly published examples as well as some unpublished specimens (pl. 1). More than half come from the Museum of Tarsus and a fifth of the total are curated at the Archaeological Museum of Mersin. The choice ranges from the seventh century BC to the late third century AD. Initially the Cypriot influences are clearly visible, which is even not lacking in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Some Cypriot figurines certainly originated from Cyprus from the fifth century BC, in limestone or plaster, are votive objects and present in the Archaeological Museum of Adana. It seems strange that only a few of such examples have been discovered in archaeological contexts in Cilicia.
Some female figurines, often bearing offerings, or male figurines, exclusively representing warriors, on horseback or standing, have been found in the necropolis sites, especially at Nagidus in western Rough Cilicia. Pre-Hellenistic coroplastic finds from Rough Cilicia were studied in a doctoral dissertation at the Akdeniz University in Antalya. Recently Tarsian figurines kept in the Musée du Louvre and collected by Victor Langlois in the 1850s were studied by Isabelle Hasselin Rous.

Keywords: Tarsus, Antioch-on-the-Orontes, Cilicia, Turkey, Cyprus, Hellenistic period, Roman period, Archaic period, Classical period.

We are organizing an international e-conference entitled “Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine engraved gems in the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea area” that will take place on May 13-14, 2021 on Zoom.us. We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate students from a variety of disciplines of ancient studies related to these objects. The e-conference is free of charge. We would be delighted, if you could consider contributing to our video conference and contact us with the required information on the first circular before January 1, 2021. Our e-mail addresses are: [email protected] or [email protected]

İlgili müzedeki iki eserin incelenmesi ve yayınlanması, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü doktora öğrencisi Alev Çetingöz’e ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü tarafından 24 Mayıs 2021 tarih ve E.16211175-155.01-1406232 sayı ile ve 22 Aralık 2021 tarih ve E.16211175-155.01-2033462 sayı ile verilen iki yazılı izin sayesinde gerçekleştirilmiştir.

This brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2024, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal.

In this brief paper we present three inscriptions from Upper Mesopotamia, in the territories of south-eastern Turkey.

The full form of this brief article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2023, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its book. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2023: [email protected]
This brief article is written in Turkish language.
During the Roman period Cratea-Flaviopolis, today’s Gerede in the Turkish province of Bolu was an important knot of the crossroads leading to an access to the Black Sea area from Bithynia and Galatia through Paphlagonia. In this paper coinage of the city are presented and evaluated in detail.

Keywords: Cratea-Flaviopolis, Gerede, Bolu, Bithynia, Paphlagonia, Turkey, Roman period, numismatics, coniage.

Bu makalede aşağıdaki yayına atıf yapılamamıştır:

Doç. Dr. Emine Tok, Aşağı Kaystros Vadisinde Türkmen Akınlarına Karşı Bir Sığınak: Keçi Kalesi, Sanat Tarihi Dergisi 25/2, 2016, 249-275.
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/std/issue/26044/282181

Keçi Kalesi ile ilgili başlıca ve tek özgün yapıt Doç. Dr. Emine TOK'a ait olup, yayınımızda bu değerli çalışmaya yanlışlıkla yer vermedik. Bu durumdan dolayı Hocamızdan özür diliyoruz.
Hocamızın emeği ve özverili çabalarına duyduğumuz saygıdan dolayı, bu amatör çalışmamızı iptal edip, Academia'dan kaldırdık. Saygıyla duyurulur.

This short paper in Turkish language is about the production centers, commercial distributions and periodical developments of the Attic red-figure and black-glazed ceramics, Apulian vase painting, Kerch style that emerged in the last period of Attic red-figure painting. A concentration is also given to the ceramic trade in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. to western Anatolia.

Keywords: Fifth century B.C., fourth century B.C., Classical period, Attica, Apulia, Kerch, Greek ceramics, trade.

This short paper in Turkish language is about the observations and comments of Ibn-i Battuta, one of the leading travelers of the
Middle Ages, on his journey to Istanbul which are are compiled in our article.

Keywords: Traveler, Ibn-i Battuta, travelogue, Istanbul, Middle Ages, Byzantine Istanbul.

The purpose of this first international video conference was to create an analytical framework for understanding the archaeology of Izmir and its environs in western Anatolia during the Middle Ages, i.e. a period between the fifth and fifteenth centuries AD, with its social and material contexts. We intended thus to bring together researchers who can present especially new syntheses of archaeological, historical, numismatic and sigillographic data concerning Medieval Smyrna and its environs. In this online conference we have also included three papers on the archaeology of Smyrna in the ancient Greek and Roman periods which composed our first session.
This video conference took place on November 18, 2022 in Izmir, Turkey with an archaeological excursion to the sites and museums within the city of Izmir on November 19. All the lectures and discussions in our e-conference were on Zoom and in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube for participants who were unable to attend the live performance presentation. The symposium was first announced in May 2022. Between May and September 2022 there were more than ten paper applications from six countries, including – in alphabetical order – Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, Turkey and U.S.A., ten of which were accepted. Three speakers held their lectures both physically in Izmir and virtually on Zoom; the rest of the papers were presented on Zoom. Session 1 was organized in the Main Conference Hall of the Faculty of Letters in Tınaztepe Campus (in Block C), and Session 2 was organized in the office of Professor Laflı. This book was arranged mainly in November 2022 where papers were placed in order by speakers’ turns at the conference. It was constantly being updated in its online version on our Academia account. It is also published by the Press House of the Dokuz Eylül University in December 2022.
This first symposium on the archaeology of western Anatolia is dedicated to the 20th death anniversary of Professor Ekrem Akurgal, founder of modern Turkish archaeology, who passed away on November 1st, 2002.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube:

The purpose of this first international video conference was to create an analytical framework for understanding the archaeology of Izmir and its environs in western Anatolia during the Middle Ages, i.e. a period between the fifth and fifteenth centuries AD, with its social and material contexts. We intended thus to bring together researchers who can present especially new syntheses of archaeological, historical, numismatic and sigillographic data concerning Medieval Smyrna and its environs. In this online conference we have also included three papers on the archaeology of Smyrna in the ancient Greek and Roman periods which composed our first session.
This video conference took place on November 18, 2022 in Izmir, Turkey with an archaeological excursion to the sites and museums within the city of Izmir on November 19. All the lectures and discussions in our e-conference were on Zoom and in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube for participants who were unable to attend the live performance presentation. The symposium was first announced in May 2022. Between May and September 2022 there were more than ten paper applications from six countries, including – in alphabetical order – Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, Turkey and U.S.A., ten of which were accepted. Three speakers held their lectures both physically in Izmir and virtually on Zoom; the rest of the papers were presented on Zoom. Session 1 was organized in the Main Conference Hall of the Faculty of Letters in Tınaztepe Campus (in Block C), and Session 2 was organized in the office of Professor Laflı. This book was arranged mainly in November 2022 where papers were placed in order by speakers’ turns at the conference. It was constantly being updated in its online version on our Academia account. It is also published by the Press House of the Dokuz Eylül University in December 2022.
This first symposium on the archaeology of western Anatolia is dedicated to the 20th death anniversary of Professor Ekrem Akurgal, founder of modern Turkish archaeology, who passed away on November 1st, 2002.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1o__WLJLyM

This video conference took place on May 12-13, 2022 in Izmir, Turkey. All the lectures and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube for participants who were unable to attend the live performance.
Thematically papers were divided into 11 sessions, dealing with different aspects of Greek, Roman and Byzantine fibulae (cf. the program in the abstract booklet). Revised papers will be published in a peer-reviewed proceedings volume.
A fibula is a brooch or pin for fastening garments, typically at the right shoulder. The fibulae developed in a variety of shapes and are usually divided into families that are based upon historical periods, geography, and/or cultures. They are also divided into classes that are based upon their general forms. Fibulae were found in relatively large quantities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea area, where they were in use and produced frequently between the Bronze Age and Medieval periods. So far the study of these multifunctional objects has been overlooked in the Mediterranean whereas there is still a huge amount of unpublished material from excavations and museums in an area from Portugal down to Egypt.
Fibulae can be categorized based on different criteria, including genres of material, production, use and distribution. The purpose of this video conference was to create an analytical framework for understanding the fibulae in their social and material contexts. This conference considered in depth the role played by fibulas – whose uses ranged from clothes pins to status symbols to military badges of rank – in ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine societies. In recent decades, major excavation projects have produced vast quantities of material data that have reshaped our understanding of the fibulae, while also raising new questions about their use and production over the long term. We focused on a study of brooches in general and fibulas in particular. Along the way we looked at the intersection between material culture and ethnicity, dealing with the contentious issue of how much that a people’s material culture can tell us about their ethnicity – or not! In this online conference we only focused on Greek, Roman and Byzantine fibulae from the Mediterranean and Black Sea area between c. early sixth century B.C. and early seventh century A.D., and attempted to set out a comprehensive model for the study of fibulae, including their definition, typology, chronology, contexts, function, regional characteristics and distribution patterns in the whole Mediterranean and Black Sea geographies.
This conference on ancient material culture and instrumenta is dedicated to the 75th birthday of Dr Maurizio Buora, the former director of the Civici Musei Castello di Udine in Italy and an international authority on fibulae.
Such papers that engage the following themes and topics are invited:

- Fibulae from archaeological field projects (especially well-dated finds), museums and private collections,
- Identification of different kinds of fibulas,
- Ancient Greek and Latin textual sources on fibulae,
- Evolution of fibulae in the Mediterranean and Black Sea area during the Etruscan, Lydian, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods,
- The construction of fibula taxonomies,
- Similar instrumenta in the ancient Near East and their relations to ancient Graeco-Roman fibulae, - The nature of different types of surviving material culture,
- What ancient Greeks and Romans thought about afterlife? Fibulae in funerary and votive contexts,
- Comparative studies and issues related to the adoption of Greek and/or Roman fibula models in indigenous contexts: fibulae as major indicators of the relationship between these two communities (indigenous and Greek or Roman),
- Fibula as an indicator of rank and prestige in the ancient world,
- Domestic and commercial use of fibulae,
- Early Christian fibulae,
- Byzantine fibulae,
- Post-Byzantine or modern replicas of Classical fibulae,
- Eastern fibulae in the ancient western world,
- Major production centres of fibulae in the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea area,
- Related instrumenta to fibulae in the regards of their function,
- Documentation and analysis of fibulae,
- The creation of a fully annotated and organized corpus,
- Publication of fibulae in the Mediterranean in possible corpara,
- Miscellanea.

Söz konusu altı adet eser Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Anıtlar ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüğü'nün 27 Nisan 2006 tarih ve B.16.0.KVM.200.11.02.02.14.01.222.11.(TA 014/G). 65675 sayılı yazılı izni ile çalışılmıştır.
The full form of this article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2023, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its book. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2023: [email protected]
In this contribution six funerary steles of the Roman period, stored in southern Turkey, will be presented. The steles cat. nos. 1-3c are from Antioch-on-the-Orontes, no. 4 from Zeugma and nos. 5-6 should either be from Lycaonia or from Pisidia. These steles are dated between the first century and the end of the third century A.D. They are treated here for the first time both art historically and epigraphically.

Keywords: Funerary steles, Antioch-on-the-Orontes, Zeugma, Lycaonia, Pisidia, southern Anatolia, Turkey, Roman period, archaeology, epigraphy.

This PPT that is abridged hereby was presented at a virtual seminar at the Oxford Epigraphy Workshop which took place on 22nd November 2021, at 1pm GMT until 2pm GMT. In this lecture we presented some new inscriptions from local museums in eastern Turkey.
These seminars were held virtually on Zoom. A link to the meeting has been circulated the Friday before. Please contact [email protected] with any queries.
Arkeoloji Müzesi’ndeki Antik Yunanca yazıtlar ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü’nün 3 Haziran 2021 tarih ve E-28262782-806.01.03-1429753 sayılı izinleri ile çalışılmıştır.
Müze’deki gerekli belgeleme işlemi Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi’nden Arkeolog Alev Çetingöz tarafından Ağustos 2021 tarihinde gerçekleştirilmiştir.
The Greek inscriptions in the Archaeological Museum were studied with an authorisation granted by the Directorship of this museum issued on 3th June 2021 and registered as E-28262782-806.01.03-1429753.
The necessary documentation was assembled in August 2021 by Ms Alev Çetingöz (Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir).

We are glad to inform you that an international virtual conference on fibulae in the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Mediterranean and Black Sea area will take place on May 12-13, 2022 on Zoom.us, with each day dedicated to several thematic sesssions using the Zoom webinar platform. A fibula is a brooch or pin for fastening garments, typically at the right shoulder. The fibulae developed in a variety of shapes and are usually divided into families that are based upon historical periods, geography, and/or cultures. They are also divided into classes that are based upon their general forms. Fibulae were found in relatively large quantities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea area, where they were in use and produced frequently between the Bronze Age and Medieval periods. So far the study of these multifunctional objects has been overlooked in the Mediterranean whereas there is still a huge amount of unpublished material from excavations and museums in an area from Portugal down to Egypt. This conference is dedicated to the 75th birthday of Dr Maurizio Buora, the former director of the Civici Musei Castello di Udine in Italy and an international authority on fibulae.
We would be delighted, if you could consider contributing to our e-conference and contact us with the required information below before March 1, 2022. Our e-mail addresses are: [email protected] or [email protected]
We would be thankful, if you send us your abstract and required information only in word doc. For all your queries concerning the e-conference our phone number is: +90.539.577 07 33.
We would also be grateful if the lecturers can submit their presentations as a video until April 15, 2022 so that we can make sure to have their lectures prior to the virtual conference on May 12-13.
After the conference participants will be required to submit their revised papers by October 1. Revised papers will be published in a peer-reviewed proceedings volume.
The organizers seek to widen participation at this e-conference, and would like to encourage colleagues from all parts of the world to attend. The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any interested researches, colleagues and students within your research community who would be interested in participating at this e-conference, either by forwarding our e-mail through Academia, Researchgate, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other similar social media, or by printing this circular or our poster and displaying it in your institution. Please share it also on your ListServs. We hope that you will be able to join us on Zoom, and look forward to seeing you in May!
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Throughout his existence, man has always been confronted with contagious diseases that caused epidemics, sometimes even pandemics. Especially when a new disease reached populations that had not been exposed to it before, the consequences would be devastating. Some past outbreaks can be identified by means of archeological finds in Anatolia, because the disease left its mark on skeletons and mummies in Egypt. Mostly however, the information about epidemics in Anatolia comes to us through historical sources that recorded the disruption and misery brought about on a community. Interpreting these data is often problematic, especially when it comes to identifying the exact disease behind an outbreak. In this very brief paper some main information about the epidemics and plagues in the Mediterranean in ancient times and Middle Ages have been collected.

Reference: E. Laflı/A. Çetingöz, Epidemics and plagues in the Mediteranean in ancient times and Middle Ages, in: Z. Toprak Karaman, A. Altay, Ö. Çakır (eds.), Covid-19 Pandemisinde Disiplinlerarası Bütünleşik Afet Yönetimi, Uluslararası Çevrimiçi Sempozyumu / Inter-disciplinary integrated disaster administration on Covid-19 pandemic, 1-2 Nisan 2021, Özet Bildiri Kitabı / Abstract book, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Yayınları, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü (Izmir: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Matbaası, 2021) 52-57 (ISBN: 978-975-441-545-6).

This is an unpublished draft of the Izmir conferences for public archaeology 1 which is written mainly in Turkish language. The first of this conference series was held on Birgi, a Turkish Aegean township in the province of Izmir that is discussed through its archaeological and historical features. This conference was held on December 12-13, 2013 in Birgi. Most of the papers are devoted to the Ottoman history.

Bu makalede konu edilen eserlerin incelenmesi, ilgili Müze Müdürlükleri tarafından 23 Aralık 2019 tarih ve 36840858-155.01-E.1062933 sayı ile verilen yazılı izinler sayesinde gerçekleşmiştir.

This article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2025, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its book. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2025: [email protected]

This straightforward catalogue presents 110 metal objects of the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods which are curated in the local museums of  southern Turkey. The main groups of metal objects are weapons, vessels, bread stamps, hooks, fibulae, steelyard weights, strigiles, mirrors, simpula, figurines, and other implements. Most of these finds are collected by purchase, but as they are well illustrated, they are useful for typology and function.

Riassunto – La lavorazione dei metalli dell’antichità e del medioevo nei musei Turchia meridionale:
Questo catalogo diretto presenta 110 oggetti in metallo del periodo arcaico, classico, ellenistico, romano e bizantino che sono ospitati nei musei locali. I principali gruppi di oggetti metallici sono armi, vasi, francobolli, ganci, fibule, pesi da stadera, strigili, specchi, simpule, figurine e altri strumenti. La maggior parte di questi reperti sono stati acquistati, ma sono utili per tipologia e funzione.

Özet – Güney Anadolu Yerel Müzelerinde Antik Çağ ve Ortaçağ’a Ait Metal Eserler :
Bu basit katalog, Güney Anadolu yerel müzelerinde muhafaza edilen Arkaik, Klasik, Hellenistik, Roma ve Bizans Dönemleri’ne ve Ortaçağ’a ait 110 adet metal objeyi derlemektedir. Söz konusu eserlerin ait oldukları ana gruplar silahlar, kap-kacaklar, mühürler, oltalar, fibulalar, kantar ağırlıkları, strigiller, aynalar, simpulalar, figürinler ve diğer aletlerdir. Bu buluntuların çoğu satın alma yoluyla toplanmıştır, ancak bir arada derlendikleri için tipoloji ve işlev açısından önem arz etmektedirler.

Keywords: Metalwork, instrumenta, local museums, southern Turkey, Asia Minor, Archaic period, Classical period, Hellenistic period, Roman period, Byzantine period, Medieval period.

Parole chiave: Carpenteria metallica, instrumentum domesticum, musei locali, Turchia meridionale, Asia Minore, periodo arcaico, periodo classico, periodo ellenistico, periodo romano, periodo bizantino, medioevo.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Metal eserler, Antik Dönem araç-gereçleri, yerel müzeler, Antik Güney Anadolu, Türkiye, Arkaik Dönem, Klasik Dönem, Hellenistik Dönem, Roma Dönemi, Bizans Dönemi, Ortaçağ.

Addenta: The bronze in the Louvre mentioned in this article is perhaps not a Gorgo, but a "Nike", especially because of her face.
A similar Early Byzantine balance with an emperor’s head exists in the private museum of the Izmir Trade Chamber.

To quote this article: E. Laflı/G. Kan Şahin/A. Çetingöz, Metalwork of classical antiquity and the Middle Ages in southern Turkey, in: Massimo Lavarone, Stefano Magnani and Fabio Prenc (eds.), Omaggio a Maurizio Buora. MB. Maurizio Buora. La sua storia. Il suo Friuli, Archeologia di frontiera 12 (Trieste: Societa Friulana di Archeologia – odv; Editreg di Fabio Prenc, 2022), pp. 183-253. ISBN 978-88-3349-045-8.

Bu makalede konu edilen eserler ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü’nün 3 Haziran 2021 tarih ve E-28262782-806.01.03-1429753 sayılı izinleri ile çalışılmış ve bu makale kapsamında yayınlanmıştır.

This article will be displayed in Academia beginning from January 1, 2026, as it can be filed on freely accessible online archives no earlier than one year after the release of its journal. Please e-mail me for obtaining this brief article before 2026: [email protected]

This article offers an edition of the 18 Greek inscriptions from Cappadocia, among them 13 previously-unpublished texts including two new metrical inscriptions. With the exception of the one in the Appendix, these texts are funerary, should be dated to the period c. 130-250 AD, and take the form of family members dedicating funerary monuments in commemoration of deceased relatives. They offer significant insight into naming habits in this part of inland Asia Minor at the time of the Roman empire, not least in the use of Greek and Roman conventions including double-names and short names; among the inscriptions are several names otherwise not firmly attested in otherwise-published inscriptions (Amate, Anophthenes, Atios, Mazoubine, Taurophilos). A plague or illness is attested in one inscription. The funerary formulae of these inscriptions offer insight into the use of traditional Greek acclamations and also the translation into Greek of the Latin habit of dedicating funerary monuments to the Household Gods. The physical aspects of the stelai, featuring pedimental decorations, acroteria and inscribed texts, and sometimes objets de toilette, echo Greek traditions in commemoration but also constitute a recognisably local style. Aspects of the human bust portraits on a number of the monuments resemble those known elsewhere in inland Asia Minor. The metrical aspect of two of the inscriptions demonstrates a further level of artistry and engagement with a long Greek epitaphic tradition and indicates an aspirational literary ostentation. Overall, they illustrate the mingling of Greek, Roman and other cultures in a region influenced by the presence of the 12th Roman Legion; in particular they enunciate the significance of funerary display across the cultural spectrum and demonstrate the power of private funerary monuments to express family ties in Cappadocia at a time of Roman power.

KEYWORDS: Cappadocia, Comana, eastern Turkey, Roma period, second-third centuries AD, funerary stelae, Anatolian archaeology, Greek epigraphy, Roman archaeology, classical archaeology.