The assembled palace of Samosata: object vibrancy in 1st C. BCE Commagene
This
dissertation develops an innovative approach to cultural transformation
in the kingdom of Commagene (modern south-east Turkey) during the 1st
c. BCE, focusing on a palatial context in the capital Samosata. It
unlocks two corpora of archaeological legacy data, which pertain to
salvage excavations undertaken by a team of the Middle East Technical
University (Ankara) in the period 1978-1989, in the wake of the site’s
flooding by the Euphrates river. The dissertation integrates the
excavation documentation with archaeological material nowadays stored at
the Archaeological Museum of Adiyaman. In addition to a conventional
analysis of the chronology, lay-out and architectural character of the
palace, a critique is formulated on the problematic character of
acculturative and anthropocentric approaches still characterizing
scholarship dealing with ‘Hellenism in the East’. As an alternative, it
is proposed to reconceptualize the palace of Samosata as a heterogenous
and vibrant...Show more
- Supervisor
- Versluys, M.J.
- Co-supervisor
- Blömer, M.
- Committee
- Kolen, J.; Fontijn, D.R.; Winter, E.; Pitts, M.; Hoo, M.
- Qualification
- Doctor (dr.)
- Awarding Institution
-
Faculty of Archaeoleogy, Leiden University
- Date
- 2022-05-24
Funding
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