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The third circular of the unguentarium symposium that took place on May 17-18 in Izmir is about t... more The third circular of the unguentarium symposium that took place on May 17-18 in Izmir is about the publication and its guidelines of the symposium's proceedings. The deadline for the publication is January 1, 2019. If you did not attend to the unguentarium symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about terracotta unguentaria, you are also welcome to submit it to us for publication until July 1, 2019.
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- The deadline for the abstract submissions to the unguentarium symposium has just been prolonged... more - The deadline for the abstract submissions to the unguentarium symposium has just been prolonged to May 10, 2018. So, if anybody in your communities is planning to participate to this symposium, we are still able to accept them.
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- The deadline for the abstract submissions to the unguentarium symposium has just been prolonged... more - The deadline for the abstract submissions to the unguentarium symposium has just been prolonged to May 10, 2018. So, if anybody in your communities is planning to participate to this symposium, we are still able to accept them.
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We would like to thank you very sincerely for your presentation at the internati... more Dear Colleague,
We would like to thank you very sincerely for your presentation at the international symposium, entitled “Unguentarium. A terracotta vessel form and other related vessels in the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine Mediterranean in Izmir, Turkey”. Between May 17 and 18, 2018 we have hosted c. 50 participants from 15 countries and 34 papers dealing with terracotta unguentaria were presented in these two days of symposium. We ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with terracotta unguentaria. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.
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The abstracts of the international symposium, entitled "Archaeology and history of Lydia from the... more The abstracts of the international symposium, entitled "Archaeology and history of Lydia from the early Lydian period to late antiquity (8th century B.C.-6th century A.D.)" and taken place on May 17-18 in Izmir, Turkey, have been published in Kubaba 14, 26, 2017, pp. 19-82. You can buy the issue number 26 of Kubaba through Ms Neside Gencer: kubabadergi@hotmail.com
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Abstracts of the Lydia Symposium. , May 15, 2017
Lydia was an ancient region, located in inner western Anatolia, streching from today’s Turkish pr... more Lydia was an ancient region, located in inner western Anatolia, streching from today’s Turkish province of Manisa in the west to Uşak in the east. Since the end of the 19th century a great deal of scientific work has been done on Lydia, one of the most important of the 32 classical regions of Anatolia. At the beginning of 20th century the U.S. American “Archaeological Exploration of Sardis” was one of the first leading steps of scholarly studies in Lydia. In Turkish archaeology Lydia and Lydian studies became a scientific field first with the Ph.D. dissertation of V. Sevin at the University of Istanbul which was completed between the years of 1969 and 1973. Since the end of 1960s several scholars, including G. M. A. Hanfmann, C. H. Greenewalt, Jr., R. Gusmani, P. Herrmann, A. Ramage, G. Petzl, H. Malay, M. Ricl and C. Jones, contributed on the archaeology, history and epigraphy of Lydian, Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods of the region. Among others, two significant meetings and their proceedings are important in terms of current Lydian studies: The first one is the volume edited by E. Schwertheim in 1995, Forschungen in Lydien, and the second one is the conference volume that took place in 1999 in Rome and edited jointly by M. Giorgieri, M. Salvini, M.-C. Trémouille and P. Vannicelli (cf. bibliography at the end of the booklet). Since the book of C. H. Roosevelt, entitled “The archaeology of Lydia, from Gyges to Alexander”, Lydia became a more special focus in the fields of ancient Anatolian studies, both archaeologically and historically. Also, since 2005s Lydian become an active area by the increase of the number of archaeological excavations and field surveys, such as Thyateira, Tripolis and surveys in southeastern Lydia, that are being represented in this current symposium.
The aim of this present symposium, entitled “Archaeology and history of Lydia from the early Lydian period to the late antiquity (8th century B.C.-6t century A.D.)”, is to report on the state of research concerning Lydia between the middle Iron Age and late antiquity in a more extensive context. Our intention was to extend the chronologies of Lydian studies in a wider range from Lydian period to the early Byzantine period, to bring together scholars of from a wider range of disciplines, among others archaeology, history, epigraphy and other related disciplines in ancient Anatolian studies and to discuss a range of issues related to a larger variety of perspectives in a more interdisciplinary manner. The following theme groups are the main questions of the symposium:
- Archaeological field projects and museum studies in Lydia,
- Lydia during the Iron Age,
- Lydia in ancient mythology,
- Lydia during the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods,
- Lydia and Lydians in ancient authors, eg. Homer, Herodotus, Strabo, Hippolytus of Rome and Hierocles,
- Ethno-cultural landscape of ancient Lydia and ethnoarchaeology,
- Lydian language, script and epigraphy,
- First coinage in Lydia: Reasons, circulations, dynamics and mechanisms,
- Tumuli in Lydia and their archaeology,
- The Royal Road,
- Relationships between Lydia and Ionia, the Achaemenid Empire as well as other neighbouring regions,
- Historical geography and settlement patterns in Hellenistic, Roman and Late Roman-Early Byzantine Lydia,
- Epigraphy and numismatic in Lydia during the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods,
- Roads, routes and population in Lydia,
- Lydia as a part of the Roman province Asia and the “seven churches of Apocalypse”,
- Forms of Christian presence in Roman and Early Byzantine Lydia,
- Jews and Jewish heritage in Roman and Early Byzantine Lydia,
- The province Lydia under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 296,
- Episcopal sees of the Late Roman province of Lydia,
- Population and settlement boom in the “Justinianic” era,
- Miscellanea.
This symposium will take place on May 17-18, 2017 at the Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) in Izmir, Turkey. After the symposium there will be two excursions; the first one will be on May 19-20 to Chios, Greece and the second one will be on May 21 to Sardis in Lydia. The symposium has first been announced in September 2016. Between October 2016 and April 2017 there were more than 100 paper applications from 24 countries, including -in an alphabetical order- Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Mauritius, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S.A., 95 of which were accepted as a paper to be presented at our symposium. Thematically papers were divided into 21 sessions, dealing both with Lydia and other neighbouring regions in western Anatolia. The deadline for applications has been closed in April 30, 2017. This booklet is arranged mainly in April 2017 where abstract were pasted in an alphabetical order of their authors’ names. It will constantly be updated in its online version, both in our Academia and Researchgate accounts. They will also be published in the Turkish peer-reviewed archaeological journal Kubaba which is being edited by Ms Neşide Gençer. We have also a number of colleagues as observers (cf. for their list on pp. 121-122 at the end of the booklet).
The Izmir Center of the Archaeology of Western Anatolia (EKVAM) is inagurated in 2014 at the Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) in Izmir by the present author. This center organized several international archaeological meetings under the series of Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea, Congressus internationales Smyrnenses and will continue to organize these annual scientific meetings in Izmir regularly every third week of May (for a list of past meetings and their publications in the series of Colloquia anatolica et aegaea, Acta congressus communis omnium gentium Smyrnae, please cf. p. 128 at the end of this booklet). Annoucement for our 2018 meeting is also to be found at the end of this booklet on p. 129.
In this abstract booklet an extensive bibliography about Lydia is also created on pp. 114-120. The purpose of this bibliographical list is to collect as much as possible scientific publications about the ancient studies on Lydia until the year of 2017. Everybody is welcome to join to this list with her/his own references.
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Between May 15 and 18, 2017 we have hosted c. 100 participants from 19 countries and 65 papers de... more Between May 15 and 18, 2017 we have hosted c. 100 participants from 19 countries and 65 papers dealing with Lydia and Lydians were presented in these four days of symposium, entitled Archaeology and history of Lydia from the early Lydian period to late antiquity (8th century B.C.-6th century A.D.) in Izmir, Turkey. On May 19-21 we have organized two excursions to Chios, Greece and Sardis, Turkey.
The proceedings of the symposium will be published by the Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté in France in 2019. Editors of the volume are Professor Ergün Laflı, Dr Gülseren Kan Şahin and Professor Guy Labarre. Provisional title of this forthcoming book is as follows: E. Laflı, G. Kan Şahin and G. Labarre (eds.), Archaeology and history of Lydia from the early Lydian period to late antiquity (8th century B.C.-6th century A.D.), Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea – Acta congressus communis omnium gentium Smyrnae IV (Besançon, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté 2019, in progress).
As the book will contain only papers related to Lydia and Lydians between 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D., we ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with Lydia or Lydians between 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.
If you did not attend to the Lydia Symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about Lydia or Lydians between 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D., you are welcome to submit it to us for publication.
As we will submit the book to Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté around March 2018, the deadline for submissions is January 1, 2018.
The only accepted language for the proceedings is English; we therefore ask you kindly to submit your paper only in English.
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We are happy to inform you that a symposium entitled „Archaeology and History of Lydia from Early... more We are happy to inform you that a symposium entitled „Archaeology and History of Lydia from Early Lydian Period to the Late Antiquity (8th Cent. B.C.-6th Cent. A.D.)” will take place on May 17-18, 2017 at the Dokuz Eylul University (DEU) in Izmir, Turkey. Lydia was an ancient region, located in inner western Anatolia, and compared to the coastline of western Asia Minor its archaeology is not well-known. We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate students from a variety of disciplines of ancient classical studies related to this region. The aim of this symposium is to report on the state of research concerning Lydia between ca. 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D. We kindly request that you alert any persons within your research community who would be interested in participating at this symposium, either by forwarding our e-mail, or by printing this circular and displaying it in your institution. We hope that you will be able to join us at the Dokuz Eylül University, and look forward to seeing you in Izmir!
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Third circular of the international video conference on Cappadocia and Cappadocians in the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods; May 14-15, 2020 in Izmir, Turkey, 2020
This video conference was held on May 14-15, 2020 on zoom.us. There were more than 39 paper appli... more This video conference was held on May 14-15, 2020 on zoom.us. There were more than 39 paper applications from 12 countries, including -in alphabetical order- Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey and the U.S.A., 32 of which were accepted as a lecture to be presented at our video conference.
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.
We would like to edit the proceedings of this conference as quickly as possible. We therefore ask you to submit us your manuscript until July 15, 2020 to terracottas@deu.edu.tr
Please note that we have no page limit. Publication style of each paper should be adopted to the form of our abstract booklet.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89iPO_6ujofOfBo_I3IG1nwsf0bTyEWy
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E. Laflı/G. Kan Şahin/L. Chrzanovski (eds.), Abstract booklet of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean to Dacia, the Black Sea and beyond. Comparative lychnological studies in the Eastern parts of the Roman Empire and peripheral areas. An international symposium", 2019
This version of the abstract booklet and the program of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatol... more This version of the abstract booklet and the program of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean to Dacia, the Black Sea and beyond. Comparative lychnological studies in the Eastern parts of the Roman Empire and peripheral areas. An international symposium" which was held on May 16-17, 2019 at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir, Turkey, contains more picture than the other version below.
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This is the final version of the poster of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the ea... more This is the final version of the poster of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean to Dacia, the Black Sea and beyond. Comparative lychnological studies in the eastern parts of the Roman Empire and peripheral areas. An international symposium" which was held on May 16-17, 2019 at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir, Turkey.
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This is the third circular of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the eastern Mediter... more This is the third circular of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean to Dacia, the Black Sea and beyond. Comparative lychnological studies in the Eastern parts of the Roman Empire and peripheral areas. An international symposium" which was held on May 16-17, 2019 at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir, Turkey. The third circular deals mainly with the proceedings of the symposium.
If you did not attend to the Anatolian lamp symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about terracotta lamps, you are also welcome to submit it to us for publication until December 31, 2019. Papers and photos should be submitted to the chief editor of the proceedings electronically via e-mail. Here is our e-mail address: terracottas@deu.edu.tr
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This is the final program of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the eastern Mediterr... more This is the final program of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean to Dacia, the Black Sea and beyond. Comparative lychnological studies in the Eastern parts of the Roman Empire and peripheral areas. An international symposium" which will be held on May 16-17, 2019 at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir, Turkey.
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E. Laflı/G. Kan Şahin/L. Chrzanovski (eds.), Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean to Dacia, the Black Sea and beyond. Comparative lychnological studies in the eastern parts of the Roman Empire and peripheral areas. Papers presented at the international symposium, 2019
This is the final proceedings' book of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the easter... more This is the final proceedings' book of the "Ancient terracotta lamps from Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean to Dacia, the Black Sea and beyond. Comparative lychnological studies in the Eastern parts of the Roman Empire and peripheral areas. An international symposium" which was held on May 16-17, 2019 at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir, Turkey and dedicated to Hugo Thoen.
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- Please feel free to post this program and/or booklet in your own Facebook, Academia or Researchgate accounts or circulate it to your friends/communities. Thank you in advance.
- Please feel free to post this program and/or booklet in your own Facebook, Academia or Researchgate accounts or circulate it to your friends/communities. Thank you in advance.
We would like to thank you very sincerely for your presentation at the international symposium, entitled “Unguentarium. A terracotta vessel form and other related vessels in the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine Mediterranean in Izmir, Turkey”. Between May 17 and 18, 2018 we have hosted c. 50 participants from 15 countries and 34 papers dealing with terracotta unguentaria were presented in these two days of symposium. We ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with terracotta unguentaria. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.
The aim of this present symposium, entitled “Archaeology and history of Lydia from the early Lydian period to the late antiquity (8th century B.C.-6t century A.D.)”, is to report on the state of research concerning Lydia between the middle Iron Age and late antiquity in a more extensive context. Our intention was to extend the chronologies of Lydian studies in a wider range from Lydian period to the early Byzantine period, to bring together scholars of from a wider range of disciplines, among others archaeology, history, epigraphy and other related disciplines in ancient Anatolian studies and to discuss a range of issues related to a larger variety of perspectives in a more interdisciplinary manner. The following theme groups are the main questions of the symposium:
- Archaeological field projects and museum studies in Lydia,
- Lydia during the Iron Age,
- Lydia in ancient mythology,
- Lydia during the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods,
- Lydia and Lydians in ancient authors, eg. Homer, Herodotus, Strabo, Hippolytus of Rome and Hierocles,
- Ethno-cultural landscape of ancient Lydia and ethnoarchaeology,
- Lydian language, script and epigraphy,
- First coinage in Lydia: Reasons, circulations, dynamics and mechanisms,
- Tumuli in Lydia and their archaeology,
- The Royal Road,
- Relationships between Lydia and Ionia, the Achaemenid Empire as well as other neighbouring regions,
- Historical geography and settlement patterns in Hellenistic, Roman and Late Roman-Early Byzantine Lydia,
- Epigraphy and numismatic in Lydia during the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods,
- Roads, routes and population in Lydia,
- Lydia as a part of the Roman province Asia and the “seven churches of Apocalypse”,
- Forms of Christian presence in Roman and Early Byzantine Lydia,
- Jews and Jewish heritage in Roman and Early Byzantine Lydia,
- The province Lydia under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 296,
- Episcopal sees of the Late Roman province of Lydia,
- Population and settlement boom in the “Justinianic” era,
- Miscellanea.
This symposium will take place on May 17-18, 2017 at the Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) in Izmir, Turkey. After the symposium there will be two excursions; the first one will be on May 19-20 to Chios, Greece and the second one will be on May 21 to Sardis in Lydia. The symposium has first been announced in September 2016. Between October 2016 and April 2017 there were more than 100 paper applications from 24 countries, including -in an alphabetical order- Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Mauritius, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S.A., 95 of which were accepted as a paper to be presented at our symposium. Thematically papers were divided into 21 sessions, dealing both with Lydia and other neighbouring regions in western Anatolia. The deadline for applications has been closed in April 30, 2017. This booklet is arranged mainly in April 2017 where abstract were pasted in an alphabetical order of their authors’ names. It will constantly be updated in its online version, both in our Academia and Researchgate accounts. They will also be published in the Turkish peer-reviewed archaeological journal Kubaba which is being edited by Ms Neşide Gençer. We have also a number of colleagues as observers (cf. for their list on pp. 121-122 at the end of the booklet).
The Izmir Center of the Archaeology of Western Anatolia (EKVAM) is inagurated in 2014 at the Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) in Izmir by the present author. This center organized several international archaeological meetings under the series of Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea, Congressus internationales Smyrnenses and will continue to organize these annual scientific meetings in Izmir regularly every third week of May (for a list of past meetings and their publications in the series of Colloquia anatolica et aegaea, Acta congressus communis omnium gentium Smyrnae, please cf. p. 128 at the end of this booklet). Annoucement for our 2018 meeting is also to be found at the end of this booklet on p. 129.
In this abstract booklet an extensive bibliography about Lydia is also created on pp. 114-120. The purpose of this bibliographical list is to collect as much as possible scientific publications about the ancient studies on Lydia until the year of 2017. Everybody is welcome to join to this list with her/his own references.
The proceedings of the symposium will be published by the Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté in France in 2019. Editors of the volume are Professor Ergün Laflı, Dr Gülseren Kan Şahin and Professor Guy Labarre. Provisional title of this forthcoming book is as follows: E. Laflı, G. Kan Şahin and G. Labarre (eds.), Archaeology and history of Lydia from the early Lydian period to late antiquity (8th century B.C.-6th century A.D.), Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea – Acta congressus communis omnium gentium Smyrnae IV (Besançon, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté 2019, in progress).
As the book will contain only papers related to Lydia and Lydians between 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D., we ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with Lydia or Lydians between 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.
If you did not attend to the Lydia Symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about Lydia or Lydians between 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D., you are welcome to submit it to us for publication.
As we will submit the book to Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté around March 2018, the deadline for submissions is January 1, 2018.
The only accepted language for the proceedings is English; we therefore ask you kindly to submit your paper only in English.
Congressus internationales Smyrnenses by The Lydia Symposium
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.
We would like to edit the proceedings of this conference as quickly as possible. We therefore ask you to submit us your manuscript until July 15, 2020 to terracottas@deu.edu.tr
Please note that we have no page limit. Publication style of each paper should be adopted to the form of our abstract booklet.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89iPO_6ujofOfBo_I3IG1nwsf0bTyEWy
If you did not attend to the Anatolian lamp symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about terracotta lamps, you are also welcome to submit it to us for publication until December 31, 2019. Papers and photos should be submitted to the chief editor of the proceedings electronically via e-mail. Here is our e-mail address: terracottas@deu.edu.tr
- Please feel free to post this program and/or booklet in your own Facebook, Academia or Researchgate accounts or circulate it to your friends/communities. Thank you in advance.
- Please feel free to post this program and/or booklet in your own Facebook, Academia or Researchgate accounts or circulate it to your friends/communities. Thank you in advance.
We would like to thank you very sincerely for your presentation at the international symposium, entitled “Unguentarium. A terracotta vessel form and other related vessels in the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine Mediterranean in Izmir, Turkey”. Between May 17 and 18, 2018 we have hosted c. 50 participants from 15 countries and 34 papers dealing with terracotta unguentaria were presented in these two days of symposium. We ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with terracotta unguentaria. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.
The aim of this present symposium, entitled “Archaeology and history of Lydia from the early Lydian period to the late antiquity (8th century B.C.-6t century A.D.)”, is to report on the state of research concerning Lydia between the middle Iron Age and late antiquity in a more extensive context. Our intention was to extend the chronologies of Lydian studies in a wider range from Lydian period to the early Byzantine period, to bring together scholars of from a wider range of disciplines, among others archaeology, history, epigraphy and other related disciplines in ancient Anatolian studies and to discuss a range of issues related to a larger variety of perspectives in a more interdisciplinary manner. The following theme groups are the main questions of the symposium:
- Archaeological field projects and museum studies in Lydia,
- Lydia during the Iron Age,
- Lydia in ancient mythology,
- Lydia during the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods,
- Lydia and Lydians in ancient authors, eg. Homer, Herodotus, Strabo, Hippolytus of Rome and Hierocles,
- Ethno-cultural landscape of ancient Lydia and ethnoarchaeology,
- Lydian language, script and epigraphy,
- First coinage in Lydia: Reasons, circulations, dynamics and mechanisms,
- Tumuli in Lydia and their archaeology,
- The Royal Road,
- Relationships between Lydia and Ionia, the Achaemenid Empire as well as other neighbouring regions,
- Historical geography and settlement patterns in Hellenistic, Roman and Late Roman-Early Byzantine Lydia,
- Epigraphy and numismatic in Lydia during the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods,
- Roads, routes and population in Lydia,
- Lydia as a part of the Roman province Asia and the “seven churches of Apocalypse”,
- Forms of Christian presence in Roman and Early Byzantine Lydia,
- Jews and Jewish heritage in Roman and Early Byzantine Lydia,
- The province Lydia under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 296,
- Episcopal sees of the Late Roman province of Lydia,
- Population and settlement boom in the “Justinianic” era,
- Miscellanea.
This symposium will take place on May 17-18, 2017 at the Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) in Izmir, Turkey. After the symposium there will be two excursions; the first one will be on May 19-20 to Chios, Greece and the second one will be on May 21 to Sardis in Lydia. The symposium has first been announced in September 2016. Between October 2016 and April 2017 there were more than 100 paper applications from 24 countries, including -in an alphabetical order- Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Mauritius, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S.A., 95 of which were accepted as a paper to be presented at our symposium. Thematically papers were divided into 21 sessions, dealing both with Lydia and other neighbouring regions in western Anatolia. The deadline for applications has been closed in April 30, 2017. This booklet is arranged mainly in April 2017 where abstract were pasted in an alphabetical order of their authors’ names. It will constantly be updated in its online version, both in our Academia and Researchgate accounts. They will also be published in the Turkish peer-reviewed archaeological journal Kubaba which is being edited by Ms Neşide Gençer. We have also a number of colleagues as observers (cf. for their list on pp. 121-122 at the end of the booklet).
The Izmir Center of the Archaeology of Western Anatolia (EKVAM) is inagurated in 2014 at the Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) in Izmir by the present author. This center organized several international archaeological meetings under the series of Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea, Congressus internationales Smyrnenses and will continue to organize these annual scientific meetings in Izmir regularly every third week of May (for a list of past meetings and their publications in the series of Colloquia anatolica et aegaea, Acta congressus communis omnium gentium Smyrnae, please cf. p. 128 at the end of this booklet). Annoucement for our 2018 meeting is also to be found at the end of this booklet on p. 129.
In this abstract booklet an extensive bibliography about Lydia is also created on pp. 114-120. The purpose of this bibliographical list is to collect as much as possible scientific publications about the ancient studies on Lydia until the year of 2017. Everybody is welcome to join to this list with her/his own references.
The proceedings of the symposium will be published by the Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté in France in 2019. Editors of the volume are Professor Ergün Laflı, Dr Gülseren Kan Şahin and Professor Guy Labarre. Provisional title of this forthcoming book is as follows: E. Laflı, G. Kan Şahin and G. Labarre (eds.), Archaeology and history of Lydia from the early Lydian period to late antiquity (8th century B.C.-6th century A.D.), Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea – Acta congressus communis omnium gentium Smyrnae IV (Besançon, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté 2019, in progress).
As the book will contain only papers related to Lydia and Lydians between 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D., we ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with Lydia or Lydians between 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.
If you did not attend to the Lydia Symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about Lydia or Lydians between 8th century B.C. and 6th century A.D., you are welcome to submit it to us for publication.
As we will submit the book to Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté around March 2018, the deadline for submissions is January 1, 2018.
The only accepted language for the proceedings is English; we therefore ask you kindly to submit your paper only in English.
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.
We would like to edit the proceedings of this conference as quickly as possible. We therefore ask you to submit us your manuscript until July 15, 2020 to terracottas@deu.edu.tr
Please note that we have no page limit. Publication style of each paper should be adopted to the form of our abstract booklet.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89iPO_6ujofOfBo_I3IG1nwsf0bTyEWy
If you did not attend to the Anatolian lamp symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about terracotta lamps, you are also welcome to submit it to us for publication until December 31, 2019. Papers and photos should be submitted to the chief editor of the proceedings electronically via e-mail. Here is our e-mail address: terracottas@deu.edu.tr