Metal Statuettes from Pisidia and Surroundings in Burdur Museum

This study comprises seven statuettes which are today preserved in the depot of the Museum of Ödemiş and which, within the framework of the museum's renovation works, are planned to be displayed among the museum exhibits in the near future. As part of a study entitled The Stone Artifacts of the Ödemiş Museum, supported by the University of Dokuz Eylül Research Fund and now in the preparatory stages, they are here presented for the first time to the scholarly world. These statuettes consist of one god and goddesses: two Venuses, one Hecate, one Diana, one Aesculapius, one Cybele and a Ceres or Priestess. This study aims to present and date the statuettes by comparing their stylistic, plastic and chronological characteristics with similar examples. Although the head and arm section of Diana, the left hand of the second Venus and the right hand of Cybele and, of Aesculapius, the right hand of and the portion below his ankles are lost, the fact that the statuettes are otherwise intact or completed makes them important from the standpoint of condition 1 . It is thought that the statuettes were very probably used either in a domestic cult or as votive offerings. They are dated to within the first half of the 2 nd or beginning of the 3 rd centuries A.D. on the basis of their general workmanship characteristics.

Ege Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sanat Tarihi Dergisi, 2020

Öz Makale kapsamında İzmir Arkeoloji Müzesi envanterine kayıtlı on beş bronz eser incelenmiştir. Çalışılan eserler aydınlatma araçları ve buhurdanlar olmak üzere iki farklı grup altında değerlendirilmiştir. Müzede bulunan aydınlatma araçları; kandiller, kandilin üzerine oturduğu kandelabrum gövdesi, yağ haznesi parçaları ve polykandilion askısı olmak üzere sınıflandırılmıştır. Bizans dönemine tarihlenen bronz kandiller; evlerin, resmi binaların ve kiliselerin aydınlatılmasında kullanılmıştır. Bizans İmparatorluğu dönemine tarihlenen bronz buhurdanlar, kısaca ayin esnasında kokulu bitkilerin ve ağaç kabukların yakıldığı kaplardır. Bizans döneminde buhurdanlar, farklı törenler ve ayinlerde kullanılmıştır. Bizans toplumunun günlük yaşamında yer alan geleneksel objesi konumundadır. Bir örnek dışında buluntu yerleri bilinmeyen, müzeye satın alma ve müsadere yoluyla kazandırılan bu eserlerin tarihlendirme önerileri de çok yakın benzerleri üzerinden yapılmıştır. Arkeolojik alanların Bizans tabakalarında olduğu kadar, müzeler ve özel koleksiyonlarda sıklıkla yer alan objeler Bizans günlük ve dini yaşamına ilişkin somut belgeler olarak Bizans yaşam kültürü ve alışkanlıklarını algılamayı kolaylaştırmaktadır. Makale içinde ayrıntılı olarak ele alınan bu eserler makale sonunda katalog bilgileri ile tanıtılmaktadır. Abstract Within the scope of the article, fifteen bronze objects which are registered in İzmir Archeology Museum inventory were examined. The studied objects were evaluated under two different groups as lighting tools and incense burners. Lighting tools in the museum; classified as oil lamps, candelabrum body, oil reservoir parts and polycandelon hanger.

CEDRUS The Journal of MCRI, 2019

This paper addresses the ancient bronze fibulae exhibited in the Bolu Museum. The aim of this research was to provide statistical data for future scientific studies on the subject, as well as to introduce previously unpublished fibulae in Bolu Museum. Bolu Museum to date has 19 bronze fibulae. With careful study, each reveals a differ-ent typological character. As a result of our research, we have identified 12 Phrygian Fibulae forming the largest set of fibulae in the Bolu Museum collection. Especially examples found in the Göynük province and Alan Village form important indicators of a relationship with Phrygia. As a matter of fact, Phrygian fibulae are the only group which shows local features in the collection. Urartu fibulae are represented by 3 examples; 2 fibulae are Roman, while the rest of the fibulae are understood to have originated from the Levant and Cypriot-Greek regions. The earliest fibulae in the collection are likely to date from about the last quarter of the VIIIth century B.C. while the latest date from the last quarter of the IVth century A.D. All of the fibulae are of bronze.

OLBA XXX, 2022

This study presents a detailed excamination of a metal figurine found during the 2019 excavations at Murat Höyük, located on the bank of the Murat River in the Solhan district of the Province Bingöl in Eastern Anatolia. Because the mound was to be inundated by the Aşağı Kaleköy hydroelectric dam, extensive salvage excavations were conducted at the site in 2019 under the directorship of the Elazığ Museum. Four main settlement phases (Medieval, Middle Iron, Early Iron, Early Bronze) were documented at the site with the earliest habitation dating to the Early Bronze Age III (2500-2200 BC). While figurines shaped out of clay, stone, and marble are more common in the archaeological record of Early Bronze Age (EBA) Anatolia, and metal figurines are relatively rare, a metal figurine ('statuette’) was discovered in the EBA settlement level of Murat Höyük. In terms of typological and stylistic details, the metal figurine of Murat Höyük appears unique in the 3rd millennium records of Mesopotamia, the Aegean, and the Balkans. The figurine depicts a standing nude with stylized hands and feet. Eye-sockets are marked as shallow pits; while the mouth is not indicated. Arms are stretched out on both sides; head is slightly inclined to the left; breasts are fashioned as appliqué protrusions; and pubic triangle is indicated with incised lines. The fact that stone mold and crucible fragments were found in the same level of the site suggests that the object was most probably produced locally by casting. Casting defects (flash lines) are observable on the surface. In this study, based on a comparative iconographic examinations we propose that a goddess is depicted here. With its unique characteristics, the Murat Höyük goddess figurine is a significant contribution to the repertoire of metal figurines’ in Anatolia Syria and Mesopotamia with broader implications about EBA metallurgy art and belief systems.

Arthur Muller, Ergün Laflı, Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi, (edts) Figurines de terre cuite en Méditerranée grecque et romaine volume 2 Iconographie et contexts. Figurines de terre cuite en Méditerranée orientale grecque et romaine. Production et Diffusion, Iconographie et Fonction. , 2015

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2021

Petrographic and XRD analysis of the ceramic body of late Medieval Besztercebánya/Banská Bystricatype stove tiles (Analyse pétrographique et diffraction des rayons X (XRD) du corps céramique des

A GROUP OF URARTIAN PERIOD METAL OBJECTS FROM MARDIN MUSEUM, 2021

This study presents an examination of five belt fragments and one votive plaque housed in the Mardin Museum collections. These bronze objects of unknown provenance were acquired by the museum by purchase, and conservation work on the objects was undertaken by museum staff prior to this study. Belt fragments belong to medium-width belts and the votive plaque has a square form. Materials that these objects were made from, and the decoration techniques employed for the depictions on them are in line with the characteristics of Urartian metal objects. Likewise, motifs and figures depicted on the belt fragments and the votive plaque parallel classical examples of Urartian art. Depictions include decorative motifs such as rosettes, the rhombus motif, braid and double circles, and figures such as horsemen, lions, bulls, gods, and mythical creatures. Stylistic analysis of figures and compositions on these belt fragments from Mardin Museum in comparison to belts from museums, private collections, and archaeological excavations, help us identify these artifacts as products of 8th – 7 th c. BC Urartian palatial style. The votive plaque examined here dates to the 8th – early 6th c. BC.

Asseria, 2008

This paper deals with eight fibulae and metal ornaments found during systematic excavations in Asseria. They were found in graves or in their immediate surroundings, next to the outer part of the city walls (north-eastern of the Trajan's gate), and near the new eastern entrance. Fibulae and ornaments presented in this paper cover a very wide chronological range, from the first century AD to the 6th, and maybe even 7th centuries. Most of them belong to the first Imperial period, to be more precise the first half of the first century, though examples from the second half of the first century and later were also represented.