The funerary steles of Antioch on the Orontes are dispersed across several museums, including the Archaeological Museum of Gaziantep, an important center of patrimonial conservation in south-east modern Turkey. Amongst the collections considered can be found three funerary steles coming from the workshops of Syrian Antioch (Ist cent. BC) and showing typical late Hellenistic architectonic and onomastic features (n° 1–3). A funerary monument dated to the heart of the Roman Imperial period (end of IInd cent.-beginning of IIIrd cent. AD) completes the rare epigraphic and archaeological documentation known concerning Syrian Nicopolis, also called Nicopolis Seleucidis (n° 4).

In this brief article five bronze fibulae, being exposed in the museum of Şanlıurfa and belonging to the Iron Age, will be presented. At least two of these five were found at Lidar Höyük.

In this paper we discuss harvesting scenes on Graeco-Roman gems, notably the Mediterranean staple harvest crops: cereals, the vintage, and olive oil. Our study material includes gems depicting the ard, with the heads of cereal and glumes. Of particular interest is a gem from south-eastern Turkey with an unusual scene depicting the date harvest, reminiscent of an older theme which had a ritual significance. Apart from an example in the British Museum, there are several gems depicting palm trees that reference the Levant, from whence it is likely the date harvest gems originate, just as an olive harvest gem from Britain surely originates from the Mediterranean region. The paper, therefore, includes depictions of palm trees and their symbolism in the iconography of gems in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Near East, Anatolia, Greece, Rome and the Mediterranean, and references the iconography of their representations on cylinder seals as a possible analogy for related representations on Roman gems. The authors emphasize the differing symbolism of various harvesting scenes and the professional and social status of gem owners as well as the choice of the varieties of gemstone from which particular categories were fashioned.

This paper focuses on nine fibulae curently housed in the Museum of Lycian Civilisations in Demre (ancient Myra), in south-western Türkiye. These finds were transferred from Antalya Archaeological Museum to the recently inaugurated museum in Lycia, and none of them comes from documented excavations. They belong to the Iron Age (cat. nos. 1–7) and the Roman period (cat. nos. 8–9). Their significance lies in the fact that fibulae are scarcely attested in scholarly literature for this area.

In this brief paper 15 high-relief blocks with recurring figure types will be presented which were found in a necropolis area of Edessa in south-eastern Turkey and emphasize the conservative nature of funerary relief sculpture in the Roman East. These reliefs consist of seven limestone blocks with Psychai leaning against a stone pillar, three blocks with tritons holding a dolphin, two blocks with Erotes embrassing Psychai, a block with a sphinx, a horizontal slab with Atlas and a lion-footed slab. So far no previous researchers seem to have considered these sculptures as a whole which should in fact belong to a large tomb enclosure somewhere in Roman Edessa. A reconstruction for all of these monuments will therefore be proposed here.

In this brief article we present a collection of eleven bronze bread stamps of the Early Byzantine period which are preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Hatay, i.e., ancient Antioch-on-the-Orontes in south-eastern Turkey that played a fundamental role in the shaping and developing of political life and cultures in the Greek, Roman and Byzantine East for more than a millennium. Eleven items are catalogued here in detail and identified as Late Antique-Early Byzantine bread stamps with, for the most part, Christian symbolism or connotations. At appendix 1 at the end of the paper seven Roman and Early Byzantine bronze and terracotta stamps from Turkish museums in eastern central Turkey and at appendix 2 two Early Byzantine bronze objects with monograms from the Archaeological Museum of Izmir are treated.

This paper is devoted to depictions of Tyche on engraved gems in Asia Minor, mostly dating from the Roman period. The aim is to create an iconographic typology for Tyche as represented in Roman glyptic art in Turkey, to reveal the development of the iconography of the goddess in the East and to distinguish more individualised images from the products of mass production. The study material is located in local museums, from west to east, in Izmir, Ephesus, Akhisar, Aydın, Marmaris, İznik, Burdur, Ankara, Konya, Amasya and Gaziantep in different parts of modern-day Turkey. 40 engraved gems, a glass medallion and a terracotta bulla with Tyche iconographies are here divided into twelve types which are presented with their compositions and chronologies. As a result of this study, a deepened iconographical analysis of these gems was constructed which indicates that many types depicting Tyche are of local significance.

In this brief article we present a collection of eleven bronze bread stamps of the Early Byzantine period which are preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Hatay, i.e., ancient Antioch-on-the-Orontes in south-eastern Turkey that played a fundamental role in the shaping and developing of political life and cultures in the Greek, Roman and Byzantine East for more than a millennium. Eleven items are catalogued here in detail and identified as Late Antique-Early Byzantine bread stamps with, for the most part, Christian symbolism or connotations. At appendix 1 at the end of the paper seven Roman and Early Byzantine bronze and terracotta stamps from Turkish museums in eastern central Turkey and at appendix 2 two Early Byzantine bronze objects with monograms from the Archaeological Museum of Izmir are treated.

In this brief paper 34 earrings are presented, all of which are curated in the Archaeological Museum of İznik in south-western Marmara region of Turkey. They are significant, as very few items of jewellery from Bithynia have been published.

In the vicinity of the ancient city of Lebedos, known as one of the twelve Ionian cities, located south of Izmir in W. Anatolia (Turkiye), the NE-SW-trending active Tuzla Fault zone is characterized by numerous hot springs and associated travertine-type carbonate deposits (sinter). Among these, the active Doganbey bath features an approximately 560 m-long hot water aqueduct, called the "Roman Aqueduct". This structure is distinct from the well-known Roman (Byzantine) ruins (Karakoc bath) in the area in terms of its materials and construction techniques. Despite the absence of detailed archaeological or geochronological studies in this region, the Doganbey bath and aqueduct have conventionally been attributed to the Roman era. The trough and sidewalls of the Doganbey aqueduct are covered with a 5-25 cm-thick, laminated sinter crust, formed by the flow of hot water. Each sinter lamina comprises radial structures of calcite and/or aragonite, resembling feather-like shrub structures. This study employs the U-Th chronometry to determine the age of sinter layers covering the Doganbey bath aqueduct. Two layers from a single sinter sample of the ancient Doganbey aqueduct yielded U-Th ages of 2717 +/- 106 and 2528 +/- 106 years (BP). These dates indicate a pre-Roman phase of settlement in the Lebedos area, a finding documented for the first time through this study.

In this brief paper 22 objects comprising Roman engraved gemstones and finger-rings made of both gold and glass are presented, all of which are curated in the Archaeological Museum of İznik in south-eastern Marmara, Turkey. These objects are significant as very few gemstones have been published from Bithynia. Two of the finds were excavated from a necropolis area of Nicaea. A catalogue of these artefacts will be provided at the end of this paper. Rzymskie gemmy i pierścionki ze złota i szkła z Nicei w Bitynii [południowo-wschodnia część regionu Marmara]): W tym krótkim artykule zaprezentowano 22 rzymskie grawerowane gemmy, złote i szklane pierścionki, które znajdują się w Muzeum Archeologicznym w İzniku w południowo-wschodniej części regionu Marmara w Turcji. Są to istotne eksponaty, ponieważ bardzo niewiele kamieni szlachetnych z Bitynii doczekało się publikacji na swój temat. Dwa spośród znalezisk odkryto na terenie nekropolii w Nicei. Na końcu artykułu zostały opisane złote i szklane pierścionki znajdujące się we wspomnianym muzeum. (Nikaia ve Bithynia’dan Roma Dönemi’ne Ait Bazı Gliptik Buluntular ile Altın ve Cam Yüzükler): Bu kısa yazıda İznik Arkeoloji Müzesi’nde saklanmakta olan Roma Dönemi’ne ait 22 adet gliptik örneği ile altın ve cam yüzükler tanıtılmaktadır. Bu çalışma Bithynia Bölgesi'nden şu ana değin çok az sayıda değerli taş yayınlandığı için önemlidir. İznik Müzesi'nde bulunan buluntulardan ikisi Nikaia Örenyeri’nin nekropollerinde ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Makalenin sonunda bu müzede bulunan altın ve cam yüzükler da tanıtılacaktır.

In this paper we present 95 Byzantine and Post-Byzantine liturgical and devotional objects stored in eight local museums in Cilicia in southern Turkey. This corpus provides detailed analysis of several groups of metalwork. The study aims to illuminate the religious life of Christian communities in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Cilicia.

In the last fifty years the Archaeological Museum of İznik (ancient Nicaea) in south-eastern Marmara has acquired 14 new fibulae. Twelve of these fibulae date to the Phrygian period, and two examples are from the Roman period. Among Phrygian fibulae there are several examples of the type Caner 1983 A IV, 3 variant, which are most likely of local production in Bithynia. Two other examples appear to be unique due to their size and the shape of their bow. For the Roman period, one Aucissa fibula and one Zwiebelknopffibel are present, with a pairing that is also found in other Anatolian sites. At the end of the article in the appendix 1 we present a list, updated to the year 2024, of the all Zwiebelknopffibels known from Türkiye. In the appendix 2 we also present a list of all fibulae from the main archaeological fieldworks in Türkiye between 1983 and 2022 after the appearance of Ertuğrul Caner’s publication in 1983.

In this brief paper the so-called Lydian treasure in the Museum of Uşak in western Turkey and its associated history has been presented. The collection is alternatively known as the Karun Treasure, a name given to a collection of 363 valuable Lydian artifacts dating from the seventh century BC and originating from the province of Uşak in western Turkey. This collection was the subject of a legal battle between Turkey and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art between 1987–1993 and was returned to Turkey in 1993 after the Museum admitted it had known the objects were stolen when they had purchased them.

In this article, nine formerly unpublished Greek inscriptions from Klaudiopolis in northwestern Cilicia Trachea (modern Mut in southern Turkey) are presented in detail. Apart from one example from the Archaeological Museum of Mersin, these finds are currently displayed in an open-air museum in the castle of Mut which was built in the fourteenth century by the Karamanid Turks and serves today as an o pi shot section of the Museum of Silifke (ancient Seleukeia on the Kalykadnos). The first text is an honorific dedication to Teukris, daughter of Caper, and the eight other texts are carved on the sarcophagi of Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, Stephanos, Marcus Aurelius Neon, Aurelia Antonia, Aurelius Valentinianus, Sempronia Cyrilla, Gaius Iulius Capito and Flavius Diophantos. These nine texts can be dated between the end of the second century and the fourth century A.D.

This article offers an edition of 19 Greek inscriptions from the Museum of Malatya (ancient Melitene, Cappadocia), among them 13 previously-unpublished texts including two new metrical inscriptions. With the exception of the one in the Appendix, these texts are funerary, should be dated to the period c. 150-250/300 AD, and take the form of family members dedicating funerary monuments in commemoration of deceased relatives. They offer significant insight into naming habits in this part of inland Asia Minor at the time of the Roman empire, not least in the use of Greek and Roman conventions including double-names and short names; among the inscriptions are several names otherwise not firmly attested in otherwise-published inscriptions (Amate, Anophthenes, Atios, Mazoubine, Taurophilos). A plague or illness is attested in one inscription. The funerary formulae of these inscriptions offer insight into the use of traditional Greek acclamations and also the translation into Greek of the Latin habit of dedicating funerary monuments to the Household Gods. The physical aspects of the stelai, featuring pedimental decorations, acroteria and inscribed texts, and sometimes objets de toilette, echo Greek traditions in commemoration but also constitute a recognisably local style. Aspects of the human bust portraits on a number of the monuments resemble those known elsewhere in inland Asia Minor. The metrical aspect of two of the inscriptions demonstrates a further level of artistry and engagement with a long Greek epitaphic tradition and indicates an aspirational literary ostentation. Overall, they illustrate the mingling of Greek, Roman and other cultures in a region influenced by the presence of the 12th Roman Legion; in particular they enunciate the signi cance of funerary display across the cultural spectrum and demonstrate the power of private funerary monuments to express family ties in Cappadocia at a time of Roman power. Summary for Turkish Readers Türkçe Özet:Birden Çok Etnik Unsur Barındıran Antik Kappadokia Bölgesinde Yeni İsimler, Mevkiler ve Ailevi Duyarlılık: Malatya Müzesi’nden Antik Yunanca Yazıtlar Malatya Arkeoloji Müzesi’ndeki Antik Yunanca yazıtlar, ilgili Müze Müdürlüğü’nün 3 Haziran 2021 tarih ve E-28262782-806.01.03-1429753 sayılı izinleri ile çalışılmış ve bu makale kapsamında yayınlanmıştır. Müze’deki gerekli belgeleme işlemi Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi’nden Arkeolog Alev Çetingöz tarafından Ağustos 2021 tarihinde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu makalede toplam 18 adet Yunanca yazıtlı taş eser takdim edilmektedir. Makalede önce, Müze’de teşhirde olan ve daha önce yayını yapılmış Antik Yu- nanca yazıtlı beş adet mezar steli tanıtıldıktan sonra, daha önce yayını yapılmayan 13 adet yazıt tanıtılmıştır. Yazıtların 17 adeti İ.S. 2.-3. yy. arasına, yani Roma Dönemi’ne, biri ise İ.S. 5.-6. yy.’a aittir. Makalede tanıtılan eserlerin içeriği sırası ile şöyledir: a. Daha önce yayınları yapılmış yazıtlar: i- Helene tarafından kocası için yaptırılan mezartaşı, ii- Anneleri Na için oğullarının yaptırttıkları mezartaşı, iii- Kyrilla tarafından annesi Priska için yaptırılan mezar yazıtı fragmanı, iv- Proklos tarafından Mikke için yaptırılan mezartaşı, v- Protogenes tarafından karısı Euphratia için yaptırılan mezartaşı ile vi- Mazoubine tarafından kocası Antonius Valens ve annesi Ma için yaptırılan mezartaşı. b. Daha önce yayınlanmamış yazıtlar: 1- Aribas tarafından babası ve kız kardeşi Kyrille için yaptırılan mezartaşı, 2- Loukios tarafından karısı Gemella için yaptırılan mezartaşı, 3- Yeraltı tanrılarına adanan mezartaşı, 4- Aouillios (Avillius) tarafından kızkardeşi Amate için yaptırılan mezartaşı, 5- Klaudios Amiantos tarafından karısı Iphigeneia ve kendisi için yaptırılan mezartaşı, 6- Antipas tarafından kız kardeşi Glaphyra için yaptırılan şiir vezinli mezartaşı, 7- Taurophilos tarafından karısı Ame (Nea) için yaptırılan mezartaşı, 8- Kyrillos tarafından annesi Alia Stratoneike için yaptırılan şiir vezinli mezartaşı, 9- Roustikos ve Iasonis tarafından oğulları Roustikos için yaptırılan mezartaşı, 10- Axios tarafından karısı için yaptırılan mezartaşı, 11- Apollonios ve Athenion tarafından Nikias için yaptırılan mezartaşı ile 12- Anakon ve Proklos adları geçen yazıt. Makalenin sonunda ise üzerinde Hristiyan azizi Theodoros’un adının geçtiği Erken Bizans Dönemi’ne ait bir taş eser tanıtılmaktadır.