The place of palms: an urban park at Aphrodisias : results of the Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora pool project / Andrew Wilson and Ben Russell ; with contributions by Allison Kidd [and 14 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Andrew, 1968- author.

Russell, Ben, 1984- author.

Series:

Aphrodisias ; 14.

Aphrodisias : results of the excavations at Aphrodisias in Caria conducted by New York University ; XIV

Language:

English

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Aphrodisias (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Turkey--Aphrodisias (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Aphrodisias (Extinct city)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 445 pages, 100, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Reichert Verlag, 2024.

Language Note:

In English; summary (Özet) in Turkish.

Summary:

"Excavations at Aphrodisias in the 1980s revealed an extraordinary monumental water-basin (170 x 30m) in the centre of a colonnaded square, formerly called the 'South Agora'. A hypothesis that the complex was not an agora at all but 'the place of palms' mentioned by a sixth-century benefactor in an inscription on its Propylon was demonstrated during a five-year excavation project -- The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project. This volume publishes the rich results of this excavation and the long life of the complex from the first to the sixth century and beyond. The pool was surrounded by palm trees and Ionic stoas, in the manner of the urban parks or porticus familiar in early imperial Rome. The Aphrodisian example gives us an entirely new sense of what these porticus complexes were like."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: from 'South Agora' to 'Place of Palms' / Andrew Wilson and Ben Russell

Pool, stoa, palm grove: design and construction, first century AD / Andrew Wilson, Ben Russell, and Angelos Chaniotis

Use, maintenance, and modification: first to fourth centuries AD / Andrew Wilson, Ben Russell, Allison Kidd, Angelos Chaniotis, Ahmet Tolga Tek, and Hüseyin Köker

Destruction and renewal: the Place of Palms reborn, fifth century / Andrew Wilson, Ben Russell, Allison Kidd, Angelos Chaniotis, Hugh Jeffery, Tim Penn, Hüseyin Köker, Ahmet Tolga Tek, Ulrike Outschar, Erica Rowan, and Mark Robinson

Informal writing, drawing, and carving in the Place of Palms / Angelos Chaniotis, Andrew Wilson, and Ben Russell

The basin at the Propylon: statuary and mythological reliefs, c. AD 500-550 / R. R. R. Smith and Joshua J. Thomas

The sculptural life of Place of Palms, first to seventh centuries / Joshua J. Thomas

The end of the Place of Palms, seventh century / Andrew Wilson, Ben Russell, Allison Kidd, Ahmet Tolga Tek, Hüseyin Köker, Tim Penn, Hugh Jeffery, Erica Rowan, and Ulrike Outschar

After antiquity: the Byzantine to Ottoman periods / Allison Kidd, Ben Russell, Andrew Wilson, Tim Penn, Hugh Jeffery, Muradiye Bursalı, and Ulrike Outschar

Faunal remains from the late antique to Ottoman periods / Angela Trentacoste

Conclusions / Ben Russell and Andrew Wilson

Özet

Appendix 1: Inscriptions from the Place of Palms / Angelos Chaniotis

Appendix 2. Catalogue of informal writing, graffiti, masons' marks, and gameboards from the Place of Palms / Angelos Chaniotis

Appendix 3. Catalogue of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine finds from the Place of Palms / Ahmet Tolga Tek and Hüseyin Köker

Appendix 4. Catalogue of Islamic coin finds / Betül Teoman and Gültekin Teoman

Appendix 5. Late Roman and early Byzantine ceramics: tables / Ulrike Outschar

Appendix 6. Context descriptions / Allison Kidd and Ben Russell.

Notes:

"During a visit to Aphrodisias in July 2011, Mrs Mica Ertegün was fascinated by a grand Versailles-like pool, 170 m in length, that runs down the middle of what was then known as the city's 'South Agora'. Excavations in the 1980s had unearthed both ends of the pool, but most of it remained unexcavated, unrsearched, and little understood. Mrs. Ertegün was intrigued by an honorific poem inscribed on the Propylon of the complex, a columned facade facing the east end of the pool, that describes a 'place of palms' that had been restored in c. A.D. 500 by a great local benefactor called Ampelios.... The project has shown that the complex was not an agora, but a grand tree-lined urban park with its long pool surrounded by Ionic colonnades. Its earliest part, the North Stoa, was dedcated by a local aristocrat Diogenes to the emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37), and the conception of the whole complex goes back to this period."--Preface, page xi.

"The leading notables of Aphrodisias were well-connected in Rome and often visited the imperial centre as ambassadors to maintain their city’s standing with the emperors. There they seem to have been impressed by a new kind of urban facility, the porticus complexes, such as the Porticus Liviae in the Subura district [in Rome] and the Porticus Pompeiana adjoining the theatre of Pompey in the Campus Martius, which combined colonnades, tree-plantings, water features, and high-quality statues. It seems these porticus in Rome were a direct inspiration for the Urban Park at Aphrodisias, a new and exciting form of public facility that no regional competitors in western Asia Minor matched."--Preface, page xi.

"In memory of Mica Ertegün CBE, 1926-2023."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-425) and index.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783752006926

3752006927

OCLC:

1463808833

Publisher Number:

9783752006926