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Gül  Gürtekin Demir
  • Ege Üniversitesi
    Edebiyat Fakültesi
    Arkeoloji Bölümü
    TR 35100 Bornova, Izmir
    Türkiye

Gül Gürtekin Demir

This paper presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of Lydian pottery excavated at Daskyleion between 1988 and 2002. Before becoming the satrapal centre of Hellespontine Phrygia in the Achaemenid period, to judge by the... more
This paper presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of Lydian pottery excavated at Daskyleion between 1988 and 2002. Before becoming the satrapal centre of Hellespontine Phrygia in the Achaemenid period, to judge by the historical and archaeological evidence, Daskyleion had close interrelations with the Lydian kingdom. Previous stylistic and macroscopic fabric studies of Lydian pottery from Daskyleion have shown that as well as items produced in the Lydian capital of Sardis, ceramics may also have been imported from other production centres in the region of Greater Lydia (Gürtekin-Demir 2002). New chemical analysis by neutron activation (NAA) of 31 samples from Daskyleion presented here confirms this suggestion. We determined four chemical provenance groups of Lydian pottery, each of them defined by an element pattern which is distinct from the pottery made in Sardis. Although these four provenance groups cannot be located at present due to the lack of reference data from ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Series Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi List of... more
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Series Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
List of illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Chapter 1 E nds and Beginnings: Political Change and Daily Life
at Sardis in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Times
Andrea M. Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 2 A Painted Relief Stand from Clazomenae: General
Characteristics and Individual Style
Hüseyin Cevizoğlu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Chapter 3 T he Lessons of Archaeometric Data on East Greek
Pottery Finds from Bayraklı
Pierre Dupont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Chapter 4 Painting with Fire and Smoke: Standradisation and
Variation of Pottery from Clazomenae during the
Archaic period (7th–Early 5th Century BC)
Yaşar Erkan Ersoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Chapter 5 H umble Materials? The Terracotta Figurines and Tiles
of Mermnad Sardis
Frances Gallart Marques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Chapter 6 T he Black-Glazed Pottery from Clazomenae
İlkan Hasdağlı . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Chapter 7 Grey or Painted it is the Shape that Matters (Mobile
Potters and Fashion Trends in Ceramics: the Case
Study of the Pottery Koine of the North-Eastern
Aegean in the Late 8th–7th Centuries BC)
Petya Ilieva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Chapter 8 Fikellura Mugs from Taxiarchis Hill at Didyma
Karoline Lölhöffel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Chapter 9 Pottery Remains from the Archaic Settlement Underneath
the Tetragonos Agora, Ephesos: A Chronological
Case Study of Ionian Settlement Pottery
Alexandra C.J. von Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Chapter 10 Pottery from an Archaic House in Antandrus
Yasemin Polat, Onur Zunal and Seçil Üney . . . . . . . . 201

Chapter 11 T he Hand of the Pot Painter in Early Lydia
Nancy H. Ramage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Chapter 12 D id Style Matter? The Selection and Use of Local and
Imported Drinking Vessels from the Archaic Deposit
on Taxiarchis Hill at Didyma
Bettina Reichardt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Chapter 13 A Group of Archaic Pottery from Çandarlı at the Izmir
Archaeological Museum
Aslı Saka and Rabia Aktaş . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Chapter 14 L aconia and East Greece: Cultural Exchange in the
Archaic Period
Gerald P. Schaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Chapter 15 T ransport Amphorae from the Destruction Layer at the
Menekşe Çatağı Settlement in the Propontis
Roman V. Stoyanov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Chapter 16 C lazomenian Wave-Line Pottery
Kozan Uzun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Chapter 17 T he Pottery with Non-Verbal Graffiti and Dipinti from
Dascylium
Handan Yıldızhan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Chapter 18 Artists and Collaborators: A New Look at Clazomenian
Sarcophagi
S. Melike Zeren-Hasdağlı . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Lydian Kingdom is one of the important Anatolian cultures renowned for its prosperity, fertile lands and mighty kings. The Lydian region is geographically located in an area where it can receive Greek influences from her Ionian neighbors,... more
Lydian Kingdom is one of the important Anatolian cultures renowned for its prosperity, fertile lands and mighty kings. The Lydian region is geographically located in an area where it can receive Greek influences from her Ionian neighbors, and Phrygian along with other Near Eastern influences from her eastern neighbor. Important archaeological evidence for the Lydian culture comes from the Sardis excavations as well as from the illegally excavated tumuli in the eastern and northeastern parts of Lydia. Traces of characteristic Lydian elements may be observed on the remains belonging to the period of the Mermnad rule, during the reigns between Gyges, ca. second quarter of the seventh century and the mid-sixth century BC, when the Persians destroyed Croesus' Kingdom. The Lydian cultural influence continued especially during the early period of the Achaemenid rule, which may be observed on the remains from the tumuli and other archaeological remains at Sardis. There seems to be an infusion of cultural interaction that combines elements of the Lydian, Greek, Persian, and Phrygian cultures as well as of other local Anatolian traits. This may be an indication that Lydian art is more eclectic and open to new ideas rather than being strictly conservative. This study aims to analyze the depictions on metal and ivory artifacts, terracotta statuettes, architectural terracottas, wall paintings and pottery where the cultural cooperation is basically observed.
Abstract The Lydians originally lived alongside peoples of various ethnic cultures in an area surrounded by Ionia to the west, Phrygia to the east, Mysia to the north, and Caria to the south. This core territory expanded during... more
Abstract
The Lydians originally lived alongside peoples of various
ethnic cultures in an area surrounded by Ionia to the
west, Phrygia to the east, Mysia to the north, and Caria to
the south. This core territory expanded during Mermnad
rule in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.E., especially in
the reign of Croesus (ca. 560–546 B.C.E.). Local pottery
at the Lydian capital of Sardis is a starting point for identifying
both the regional aspects of Lydian pottery and its
eclecticism, which includes elements from eastern Greek
and Phrygian pottery and common conventions of Anatolian
painting. It might seem challenging and difficult
to distinguish these individual elements, but this cultural
mixing is exactly what characterizes Lydian pottery. This
article explores the Phrygian features or influences on
the Lydian painted pottery from Sardis.*
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This book is the first major study of Lydian material culture at Gordion and also the first published monograph on Lydian painted pottery from any site excavation. Richly illustrated, it provides a comprehensive definition and analysis of... more
This book is the first major study of Lydian material culture at Gordion and also the first published monograph on Lydian painted pottery from any site excavation. Richly illustrated, it provides
a comprehensive definition and analysis of Lydian ceramics based on stylistic, archaeological, and textual evidence, while thoroughly documenting the material’s stratigraphic contexts. The book situates the ceramic corpus within its broader Anatolian cultural context and offers insights into the impact of Lydian cultural interfaces at Gordion.
The Lydian pottery found at Gordion was largely produced at centers other than Sardis, the Lydian royal capital, although Sardian imports are also well attested and began to influence Gordion’s material culture as early as the 7th century BCE, if not before. Following the demise of the Lydian kingdom, a more limited repertoire of Lydian ceramics demonstrably continued in use at Gordion into the Achaemenid Persian period in the late 6th and 5th centuries BCE.
The material was excavated by Professor Rodney Young’s team between 1950 and 1973 and is fully presented here for the first time. Ongoing research in the decades following Young’s excavations has led to a more refined understanding of Gordion’s archaeological contexts and chronology, and, consequently, we are now able to view the Lydian ceramic corpus within a more secure stratigraphic framework than would have been the case if the material had been published shortly after the excavations.