Carian/Karian
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This article presents a new reading and interpretation of the beginning of the Carian inscription of Euromos C.Eu 2. This new reading allows us to find a new example of the Carian word for priest, qmoλ. The beginning of the inscription is... more
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 53, 2016 (April) Ethnic identities in antiquity are difficult to define, and sometimes even to detect: that of Carians is no exception. In fact, it is sometimes one of the more difficult identities to... more
The inscription known as ‘The Pride of Halikarnassos’ or ‘Salmakis inscription’ (late 2nd-early 1st cent. BC) provides a significant example of the self-representation of a late Hellenistic city as well as of the construction of its... more
Bu tez çalışması kapsamında Türkiye’nin güneybatısında yer alan Karia Bölgesi’nin ilk başkenti olan Mylasa’nın, yerel tanrıları ve Mylasa’ya ait kutsal alanlar incelenmiştir. Kültler, ikonografik özellikler ve arkeolojik veriler göz önüne... more
Die Historizität der sogenannten Ionischen Migration nach Westkleinasien steht außer Frage. Indessen sind die Prozesse, die in der späten Bronze- und frühen Eisenzeit bei der Akkulturation und Ethnogenese der griechischen ‘Ioner’ sowie... more
The necropoleis of Knidos are relatively well-preserved compared to the necropoleis of Western Anatolia. In the eastern necropolis, hundreds of monumental tombs still exist, and one can observe numerous examples regarding the traditional... more
Bu çalışma, Stephanos Byzantinos’un Ethnika adlı eseri başta olmak üzere, Bizans kaynaklarında geçen ve ‘Karca’ olarak nitelendirilen bazı sözcükler üzerinde durmaktadır. Bu sözcükler, Karca yazıtlarda tanıklanmadığı için, ilgili... more
Lykia ve Karia coğrafi bölgeleri, Anadolu’nun Akdeniz’i Ege’ye bağlayan güneybatı köşesinde yanyana komşu iki kültür bölgesini oluşturur. Bu iki bölge sadece kara değil, aynı zamanda Akdeniz ile Ege sularının birbirine karıştığı deniz... more
Amos is situated on the Asarcık hill, which is located at the southwestern side of modern Marmaris in Turkey. Archaeological surveys at Amos (Carian Chersonese) and its environments started in 2019. The pottery gathered during the... more
In this paper, I shall briefly review the corpus of Archaic Carian
inscriptions, going into detail only in some specific cases and leaving out
the parts of the corpus that have been analysed in other studies.
inscriptions, going into detail only in some specific cases and leaving out
the parts of the corpus that have been analysed in other studies.
The epigraphical poem known as ‘Pride of Halikarnassos’ or ‘Salmakis inscription’ (late 2nd-early 1st cent. BC) provides a significant mythical account of the colonial expeditions that led to the foundation of Halikarnassos, featuring... more
My Master thesis on "Die Hafenfestung von Loryma" with the foreword by Winfried Held to the publication.
This article examines and discusses a new Carian inscription found on the left leg of a kouros statue. The statue was found in the Temple of Zeus Lepsynos in the ancient Carian city of Euromos during excavations carried out in 2021. The... more
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The new values proposed for letters Masson 36 and 42 after the deciphering of the dating formula of Hyllarima C.Hy 1 lead to new transcriptions of some Carian inscriptions.
Elinizdeki kitapta, Karia Bölgesi’nin prehistorik çağlara tarihlenen en erken yerleşimlerinden Geç Osmanlı Dönemi’ne uzanan arkeolojik ve tarihi geçmişi hakkında bugüne dek yapılmış çalışmaların ve güncel araştırmaların bir özeti... more
Historia Numorum Online is a collaborative internet-based project which aims to record and publish all types and varieties of the coins minted before the Roman period (c. 650-30 BCE). The first volume being developed covers Caria in Asia... more
in W. Eck - P: Funke (eds.) ÖFFENTLICHKEIT – MONUMENT – TEXT XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae 27. – 31. Augusti MMXII (Akten). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2014, 231-269.
In this paper, I address the problem of the Lycian coin legends attributed to two dynasts of the same name-Wexssere I and Wexssere II-on the basis of some very recent re-readings and novelties published by Koray Konuk. Now we actually... more
Con su libro Karuo el secreto ibero, Enrique Cabrejas o Enric Cabrejas nos relata de modo llano su experiencia personal con lo extraordinario de un descubrimiento. El 21 de Abril de 2012 consiguió lo que parecía imposible: Descifrar la... more
Günümüzde Muğla’nın Marmaris ilçesi, Turunç mahallesi, Kumlubük mevkiindeki Asarcık burnu üzerinde yer alan Amos, antik dönem boyunca Karia Khersonesos’unun (Bozburun Yarımadası) önde gelen yerleşimlerinden biri olmuştur. Bir koinon’a... more
Irmak kenarlarında ilk defa yerleşik hayata geçen insanoğlu suyun sadece bir içecekten ibaret değil bolluk ve bereket için vazgeçilmez olduğunu anlamıştır. Irmakların çevresinde sürekli nüfusu artan kabileler önce büyük köylere sonra da... more
One of the typically chaotic situations produced in Carian both by the singularity of the alphabet and by the scarcity of the documentation available is the so-called "defective notation of vowels": the fact that Carian writing tends to... more