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This publication is produced under the project of "Technical Assistance for EU-Turkey Anatolian A... more This publication is produced under the project of "Technical Assistance for EU-Turkey Anatolian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Institute" numbered TR2014/DG/04/A4-01/001. The contents of this publication is the sole responsibility of Ofset Yapımevi and WEglobal Consulting and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.

Bu makalede 1951 ve 1953 yillari arasinda Sinope antik kentinde E. Akurgal ve L. Budde tarafindan... more Bu makalede 1951 ve 1953 yillari arasinda Sinope antik kentinde E. Akurgal ve L. Budde tarafindan yurutulmus olan arkeolojik kazilarda ortaya cikarilmis Korinth, Attika Siyah ve Kirmizi Figur seramikleri ele alinmistir. Gerceklesen bu kazilar disinda, Sinop’ta ele gecmis diger bazi buluntular da istatiksel analizlerde degerlendirilmistir. Sinope’de ele gecmis en erken Korinth seramik buluntusunun GPK donemine tarihlenebilecek bir oinokhoe oldugu ve bu buluntunun Kita Yunanistan’dan ithal edilmis simdilik bilinen en erken seramik oldugu anlasilmistir. Diger Karadeniz yerlesimleriyle benzer seramik yogunluklari gosteren Sinope’de Attika uretimi kirmizi figurlu seramiklerin miktarinin MO. 5. yuzyil sonlarinda Perikles doneminde baslayan yeni kolonizasyon politikalari cercevesinde Atina’dan Sinope’ye yerlestirilen Atina vatandaslarinin kente gelmesinden sonra cogalarak artis gosterdigi gorulmektedir.

Journal of Mosaic Research, 2017

This article reassesses mosaic programmes in domestic contexts and in private spheres in the hous... more This article reassesses mosaic programmes in domestic contexts and in private spheres in the houses at Zeugma and in some other Greco-Roman cities. The starting point of the argument in the article is a mosaic inscription which was found in a Roman house in Zeugma. The mosaic pavement itself decorates the floor of a chamber decorated with geometric patterns and the inscription in the middle. The inscription is an epithalamium, a wedding song, written for a newly-wedded couple, probably residents of the house, whose names are also partly preserved in the poem. The inscription suggests that the theme and iconography of the mosaics and frescoes in public dining rooms and private rooms in the domestic context are associated with the stories of the gods, goddesses or other well-known couples related to the concept of ideal marriage in mythology and in literature. These marriage-related themes are accompanied by images of Dionysiac domesticity and Bacchic frenzy. This article proposes that many of these mosaics, which are much more permanent than the rest of the decoration, may have been commissioned as part of marriage preparations, perhaps as gifts to the wedded couple. The subjects are chosen according to the intellectual background of the house-dwellers and their milieu, from literary and mythological narratives that are meant to protect the new family's happiness and union, serve as a reminder of marriage and symbolize the perpetuity of the family's progeny and its prosperity.

Anatolia, 2020

The article deals with Corinthian; Attic Black and Red Figure pottery finds from the excavations ... more The article deals with Corinthian; Attic Black and Red Figure pottery finds from the excavations conducted by E. Akurgal and L. Budde in the ancient city of Sinope between 1951 and 1953. The study also assesses relevant pottery finds which were found in successive periods found in Sinope and their evaluations in statistical analysis. Assessment of the pottery finds has indicated that the earliest Corinthian products in Sinope are represented by an oinochoe from LPC period. Having relatively parallel pottery densities with the other cities on the Black Sea area, the amount of Attic red-figured ceramics in Sinope appear to increase after the arrival of the Athenian citizens, who settled in Sinope, after the new colonization policies promoted during the reign of Pericles in the last quarter of the 5 th century BCE.

Abstract: Ankyra: Mητρόπολις τῆς Γαλατίας in the light of the new researches This paper presents ... more Abstract: Ankyra: Mητρόπολις τῆς Γαλατίας in the light of the new researches
This paper presents the results of the archaeological surveys on Roman Ancyra that were carried out
between 2002 and 2007. Extant ancient buildings of the city were evaluated and reassessed, as well
as non-extant archaeological remains that have been reported since 1555 by travelers and previous
scholars.
In addition, the surveys also dealt with the hitherto unpublished remains that were discovered in the
Ulus district during the modern construction activities that started with the establishment of the
Turkish Republic. Archival research was carried out in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, General
Directorate of Antiquities and Museums, and the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations [and Ankara
Vehbi Koç Research Centre (VEKAM)]. Consequently, the remains of some buildings that were
mentioned in the inscriptions, whose location in the city was unknown, such as the stadium, the nyphaeum
and the palatium (?), were recognized with their almost exact provenance. Apart from these
buildings, this study examines the Temple of Augustus and Rome, the theatre, the cardo-maximus, a
colonnaded street, the Roman bath-gymnasium complex, a small Roman bath, the water dam, the
3rd-century city walls, the so-called Julian Column and the necropoleis of the city.
Building programs, which were accelerated in the city in the Augustan period and continued through
the 4th century AD, were also evaluated in a chorological sequence. The extant buildings were digitally
documented and their plans and elevations were redrawn. The project also aimed to reassess the
research history, description and dating of each building, evaluating the drawings together with the
information provided by early travelers, inscriptions, old photographs, published and unpublished
excavation reports, and comparisons with relevant parallels. Based on a digital map provided by the
Ankara Municipality, ancient city plan in which most of the ancient armatures of the city were plotted,
has been generated. Floating buildings were positioned in the city plan with precise digital coordinates
and measurements taken by total station. Extinct ancient buildings drawn and reported in the
archive documents were also placed in their almost intact locations in the city plan thanks to some
several available reference points. Thus, the project attained almost a complete digital ancient city
plan of Ankyra based on dependable archaeological data. Furthermore, the digital map also comprises
the street system of the city as well as the necropoleis, which shed light on the location of the
major ancient roads approaching to the city from the south-west and from the north.

Journal of Mosaic Research, 2017

This article reassesses mosaic programmes in domestic contexts and in private spheres in the hous... more This article reassesses mosaic programmes in domestic contexts and in private spheres in the houses at Zeugma and in some other Greco-Roman cities. The starting point of the argument in the article is a mosaic inscription which was found in a Roman house in Zeugma. The mosaic pavement itself decorates the floor of a chamber decorated with geometric patterns and the inscription in the middle. The inscription is an epithalamium, a wedding song, written for a newly-wedded couple, probably residents of the house, whose names are also partly preserved in the poem. The inscription suggests that the theme and iconography of the mosaics and frescoes in public dining rooms and private rooms in the domestic context are associated with the stories of the gods, goddesses or other well-known couples related to the concept of ideal marriage in mythology and in literature.
These marriage-related themes are accompanied by images of Dionysiac domesticity and Bacchic frenzy. This article proposes that many of these mosaics, which are much more permanent than the rest of the decoration,
may have been commissioned as part of marriage preparations, perhaps as gifts to the wedded couple. The subjects are chosen according to the intellectual background of the house-dwellers and their milieu, from literary
and mythological narratives that are meant to protect the new family’s happiness and union, serve as a reminder of marriage and symbolize the perpetuity of the family’s progeny and its prosperity.

Attualitâ NOTIZIARIO 8 SCOPERTE Da un villa g g io dell'etâ del Bronzo la prova del p iu antico v... more Attualitâ NOTIZIARIO 8 SCOPERTE Da un villa g g io dell'etâ del Bronzo la prova del p iu antico vıno m a i bevuto in F riuli 8 ALL'OMBRA DELVULCANO Lo stud io dei n u m e ro si fo rn i p rese nti in cittâ getta luce sulla produzion e del pane a P om pei 12 RESTITUZIONI N e p i festeggia il rito rn o della testa che ritrae A u g u sto com e pontefice m assim o, trafugata n e g li an n i Settanta 74 SCAVİ Un recente inte rve nto d i archeologia p re ven tiva ha m esso in luce il p iü vasto im p ia n to term ale della Bretagna a o g g i noto, annesso a una sontuosa residenza d i cam pagna 20 PAROLA DARCHEOLOGO L'lstituto A rcheologico Germ anico d i Roma p o trâ presto riprendere possesso della sua storica sede in via Sardegna 22 DAATENE La m ag nifica ossessione 3 0 diV alentina Di Napoli A nno XXXIII, n. 387 -maggio 2017 R egistrazione al tribunale di M ilano n. 255 del 07.04.1990 Direttore responsabile: Pietro Boroli D irettore editoriale: A ndreas M . Steiner a. m.steiner@myivaymed.ia.it Realizzazione editoriale: Tim eline Publishing S.r.l. Piazza Sallustio, 24 -00187 R om a Redazione: Stefano M a m m in i İn co p e rtin a in primo piano: Campo scellerato. Un'esecuzione durante ilperiodo romano imperiale. Schiavi crocefissi, olio su tela di Fyodor Andreevich Bronnikov, 1878; sullo sofndo: particolare del ritratto di un auriga, rinvenuto a Roma, inizi del II sec. d.C.

This paper deals with the preliminary results of the archaeological surveys and geophysical prosp... more This paper deals with the preliminary results of the archaeological surveys and geophysical prospections carried out in city of Zeugma between 2008-2014, in order to assess the urban expansion and the physical borders of the city, as well as its association with the military installation. The main goal of this research was to investigate the location of the military installation and its characteristics, about which new theories are being proposed based on the latest results. Contrary to previous assumptions, the results of the recent research indicate that the relatively large flat area to the west of Belkıs Tepe was surrounded by Roman city walls, enclosing the so-called At Meydanı and most of the flat terraces overlooking
Bahçedere which determines the western boundary of the city. The southern margin of this large area, on other hand, seems to be bordered by a noticeable ridge which appears to overlap with the city walls
ascending to Belkıs Tepe. The geophysical results and the archaeological data suggest that this extensively fortified area was urbanised and settled by Latin speaking, westernized, civic and military inhabitants affiliated
to military units, including vexillatio and auxilia (especially cohors milliaria Maurorum) which primarily came from Pannonia, Moesia and Danube from the beginning of the 2st century onwards, through the middle of the 3rd century AD. It is likely that the soldiers of the legio IIII Scythica who were based at Zeugma around c.66/67 AD built their conventional type of garrison installation outside of the Hellenistic city, but not far from the western Hellenistic city walls of Seleucia. After the supplementation of the Roman military presence in the region in the 2nd and 3rd centuries with auxiliary legions, however, the area of the garrison appears to have expanded to the south, gaining an urban character and transforming this western expansion into a Roman military colony (colonia). This military urban installation developed in the fortified area of the Roman period, located to the west of Belkıs Tepe and to the south of Karatepe. The fact that the test trenches and soundings carried out in this large military quarter hitherto had not exposed any burned layer of destruction suggested that this well-fortified zone was not destroyed during the Sasanian
sack of the city in 252/253 AD. Considering this, it seems plausible that the civil inhabitants who had evacuated their dwellings in the old city centre might have taken refuge in this fortified military urban installation during the siege. Recent investigations have also brought some new results and theories concerning this military urban fabric and its architectural armatures. Results of the geophysical prospection indicated that the so-called theatre building might in fact be an amphitheatre, which is yet to be tested archaeologically with excavation. One of the important results of the investigation concerns the rectilinear terrain feature in At Meydanı, which was tentatively identified as a stadium in our previous field surveys.
Recent evaluation, however suggests that the structure might be associated with a campus, where military equestrian parade would have taken place. On the other hand, an elliptical/round anomaly exposed in
geophysical prospection on one of the terraces overlooking Bahçedere in the south-western sector of the military expansion, is probably associated with a small amphitheatron for military trainings. An important stray find of a marble Mithras relief that was found in 2015 near At Meydanı seems to be associated with an architectural structure and strongly suggests the presence of a mithraeum in this military urban expansion. Overall, archaeological and geophysical data collected during these surveys indicate that the fortified western expansion of the city was the venue of the military installation which developed in an urban fabric.
This installation model has its parallel in Dura-Europos, where the military quarter was largely built by the soldiers of legio IIII Scythica after 165 AD. It seems likely that the soldiers of this legion were involved in designing and improving their new military quarter at Dura-Europos as in Zeugma, enabling in both cases more integration with the civic life of the city.

Journal of Mosaic Research, 2017

Anatolia, 2020

Journal of Mosaic Research, 2017

This article reassesses mosaic programmes in domestic contexts and in private spheres in the hous... more This article reassesses mosaic programmes in domestic contexts and in private spheres in the houses at Zeugma and in some other Greco-Roman cities. The starting point of the argument in the article is a mosaic inscription which was found in a Roman house in Zeugma. The mosaic pavement itself decorates the floor of a chamber decorated with geometric patterns and the inscription in the middle. The inscription is an epithalamium, a wedding song, written for a newly-wedded couple, probably residents of the house, whose names are also partly preserved in the poem. The inscription suggests that the theme and iconography of the mosaics and frescoes in public dining rooms and private rooms in the domestic context are associated with the stories of the gods, goddesses or other well-known couples related to the concept of ideal marriage in mythology and in literature.
These marriage-related themes are accompanied by images of Dionysiac domesticity and Bacchic frenzy. This article proposes that many of these mosaics, which are much more permanent than the rest of the decoration,
may have been commissioned as part of marriage preparations, perhaps as gifts to the wedded couple. The subjects are chosen according to the intellectual background of the house-dwellers and their milieu, from literary
and mythological narratives that are meant to protect the new family’s happiness and union, serve as a reminder of marriage and symbolize the perpetuity of the family’s progeny and its prosperity.

Archaeology of Gaziantep from Prehistoric Times to the Late Antiquity , 2022

ZEUGMA BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: THE HOUSES AND TOMBS OF ZEUGMA FROM LIFE TO ETERNITY, 2020