Studies on the history and archaeology of Lydia from the Early Lydian period to Late Antiquity

La Lydie, entre côte égéenne et plateau anatolien, associée depuis l’Antiquité au Pactole qui charriait l’or du Tmolos et à la richesse de Crésus, peuplée de Lydiens et de Méoniens, marquée par la présence perse, grecque, romaine, puis byzantine, a attiré l’attention des chercheurs depuis la fin du xviii^e siècle. Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d’élargir la chronologie des études lydiennes de la période protohistorique au début de la période byzantine et de rassembler les contributions de chercheurs et d’universitaires internationaux réunis dans un éventail large de disciplines, histoire, archéologie, épigraphie, numismatique, et selon différentes perspectives. Les sujets abordés portent sur la société, les structures sociales, les aspects militaires, l’économie, la religion, les arts, l’architecture et la culture matérielle. Cette approche diachronique permet notamment d’interroger les permanences et les ruptures entre les périodes hellénistique, romaine et byzantine et celles qui les ont précédées.

Table of contents

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List of abbreviations

Foreword

Antonio Gonzales

An introduction to Lydian studies

Ergün Laflı, Guy Labarre

Part I: Lydia in the third and second millennia B.C.

1 Protohistorical excavations at Hastane Höyük in Akhisar

Nihal Akıllı

2 Aššuwa, ᾿Ασία and the land of Lydians

Michele R. Cataudella,

Part II: Historical and other aspects of the Lydian period and the early Lydians

3 Chronology of Lydian dynasties

Alexandar Portalsky

4 Malis: a new Lydian goddess

Annick Payne, David Sasseville

5 Lefs: a Greek god in Lydian disguise. Ζευσις: a Lydian god in Greek disguise, and some Luwian gods too

Diether Schürr

6 Determining the value of the arrow-sign in Phrygian and Lydian

Fred C. Woudhuizen (†)

7 Influencing Lydia: the “Kybele Shrine” from Sardis in its Near Eastern and Greek

Contexts

Tamás Péter Kisbali

8 Some remarks on the Persian Royal Road (Herodotus V.52–54)

Yanis Pikoulas (†)

9 Diodorus and the Halys oracle

Annalisa Paradiso

10 The poet Pindar and Lydian Pelops

James Roy

11 Lydian seals from the western Pontic area

Costel Chiriac, Lucian Munteanu

12 “Who is Gyges?” once again: assessing the Carian connections of the first Mermnad king of Lydia

Liviu Mihail Iancu

13 The Artemis cult in Lydia and the Lydian Girls Choir: a political evaluation

Ayşen Sina

14 Pissuthnes, satrap of Lydia

Cinzia Susanna Bearzot

15 Lydian and Lycian arts in the context of Achaemenid Anatolia: a comparative approach

Fabienne Colas-Rannou

16 Replicating the Lydian treasure from a Turkish perspective

Ergün Laflı, Maurizio Buora

Part III: Historical and other aspects on Hellenistic and Roman Lydia

17 The Greek cities of Lydia during the First Mithridatic War (89–85 B.C.)

Fabrice Delrieux

18 The historical geography of Hellenistic and Imperial Lydia: the literary and numismatic evidence

Pierre-Oliver Hochard

19 Lydia in proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and exemplary Latin stories

Étienne Wolff

20 Heleis: a chief physician in Roman Lydia

Gaetano Arena

21 Medicine in Roman Lydia: a close relationship with imperial power

Margherita G. Cassia

22 Remarks on the imperial cult of Lydian Philadelphia based on classical literary sources

Hüseyin Üreten, Ömer Güngörmüş

23 The cult of Men in Lydia

Guy Labarre

24 An amazing oracle of Apollo of Claros and the question of the supreme god (Macrobius, Saturnalia I.18.20): Zeus, Hades, Helios, Dionysos, and Iaô

Charles Guittard

Part IV: Material culture of Hellenistic and Roman Lydia

25 A preliminary report on the recent archaeological discoveries in Lydia and the Upper Cayster Valley

Ergün Laflı

26 Building inscriptions from Roman Lydia

Maria Kantirea

27 Anatolian koine of burial practices: transformation of elite burials

Erik Hrnčiarik, Lucia Nováková

28 A preliminary report on the Roman pottery from Tabae

Oğuz Koçyiğit

29 The use of Roman fired bricks in Lydia and neighbouring regions

Julia Cecile Martin

30 Arms factories at Sardis and the supply of Roman eastern auxiliaries

Damien Glad

31 An archaeological note on Saittai

Enes Hançer

Part V: Early Byzantine Lydia

32 A contribution to the study of Lydia in the Early Byzantine period

Dimitris P. Drakoulis

33 The Early Byzantine province of Lydia based on sigillographic evidence

Werner Seibt

34 The relation of Priscianus of Lydia to Byzantium during the wars of Justinian I with the Sassanian empire

Katarzyna Maksymiuk

Part VI: Varia anatolica occidentalia

35 Ephesian amphorae in Rome in the imperial period

Giorgio Rizzo

36 Trade from Chios and Phocaea (fourth–seventh century A.D.) between written and archaelogical sources: a methodological approach

Daniele Tinterri

Part VII: Selected abstracts on recent research in Lydia

37 Geoarchaeological-paleogeographical observations on Hypaepa and its surroundings in southwestern Lydia

Serdar Vardar

38 The Hittites in Lydia

Ahmet Ünal

39 Three new sites in southeastern Lydia: Kapancık, Gerdekkayası, and Ören

Harun Oy

40 Electrum coins from Lydia and the surrounding area in the collections of the Numismatic Museum in Athens

George Kakavas

41 Lydian personal names and the question of Lydian ethno-linguistic identity

Rostislav Oreshko

42 New examples of Archaic architectural terracottas from Lydia

Sedat Akkurnaz

43 Anatolian pottery from Panticapaeum

Natalia S. Astashova

44 A Lydian tale about the Etruscans: the migration of Tyrrhenos to the west

Dominique Briquel

45 Evaluation of burial customs in Lydia in the light of the finds from the necropolis of Tralles

Arzu Özver

46 Family structure in Roman Lydia

Marijana Ricl

47 Anatolian imports in Slovenia

Verena Perko, Tina Žerjal

48 Brickwork patterns on Church at Sardis: structure and meaning

Jasmina S. Ćirić

Abstracts and keywords in English / Türkçe Özetler ve Anahtar Kelimeler