Das Sepulkralwesen im Rauen Kilikien am Ende der Antike: Funerärarchäologie und Grabepigraphik einer spätantiken Landschaft by Jon Cubas Díaz (review)

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Reviewed by: Das Sepulkralwesen im Rauen Kilikien am Ende der Antike: Funerärarchäologie und Grabepigraphik einer spätantiken Landschaft by Jon Cubas Díaz Philipp Pilhofer Das Sepulkralwesen im Rauen Kilikien am Ende der Antike: Funerärarchäologie und Grabepigraphik einer spätantiken Landschaft Jon Cubas Díaz Asia Minor Studien 98. Bonn: Habelt-Verlag, 2021. Pp. xviii + 226. ISBN: 978-3-7749-4280-6 [Disclosure: in 2022, the author of this review has been cooperating in a workshop series with the author of the book.] The rough Taurus mountains of southern Turkey yield an enormous and often neglected amount of ancient monuments. The book under review investigates the funerary landscape of a small region at the southern Taurus slopes in detail by combining a precise discussion of archaeological remains with its epigraphical context. It is a revision of the author's 2018 PhD thesis at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. It was written under the auspices of Stephan Westphalen, and in the contexts of the DFG-funded Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 933 "Materiale Textkulturen." The book's title translates roughly as "The Sepulchral Culture of Rough Cilicia at the End of Antiquity: Funerary Archaeology and Epigraphy of a Late Antique Landscape." Essentially, the author, a Byzantine archaeologist by training, analyzes how the "funerary habit" develops in the imperial period and Late Antiquity (7). "Funerary habit" is defined by the author as the way in which graves were designed, ornamented, placed, and inscribed. Geographically, the study focuses on the eastern part of what is known as Rough Cilicia: the borderlands of the provinces of Cilicia (prima) and Isauria, the so-called Olbian highlands, named after the god Zeus Olbios who was venerated here in his temple for ages. The necropoleis of seven towns and villages are analyzed: the coastal cities (Elaiussa Sebaste, Korykos, also Korasion), smaller villages in between the steep gorges of the hinterland (Kanytelleis, Karakabaklı together with Işıkkale), and a major city in the highlands, Diokaisareia at an altitude of almost 1,200 meters. The book is divided into six main chapters. After some preliminary remarks (and a prepended English summary, xiii–xvii) the aforementioned towns and villages are introduced one by one (chapter 2: "Case studies"). The remarks on each location's history of research, settlement, necropol(e)is, and inscriptions result in the longest chapter of the book. Chapter 3 ("Epigraphical analysis") is based on an unpublished database consisting of all known funerary inscriptions and stemming from the area between the rivers Lamos and Kalykadnos (that is, not only from the mentioned localities; 74). Of the 884 funerary inscriptions, only two were written in Latin. After a short discussion of the palaeographic and linguistic issues, the inscriptions are analyzed in several regards, inter alia onomastic, legal,1 occupational (Appendix 2, 197–214, gives a complete list of [End Page 555] mentioned occupations, sorted by site and inscription), and religious. Chapter 4 ("Funerary monuments and their décor") for the first time presents a typology of funerary monuments based on the evidence of nearly the whole region, not only of one or two cities. Chapter 5 ("Funerary monument and writing in context") analyzes the combination of epigraphical and archaeological evidence under two main aspects. Firstly, the placement of inscriptions on the grave monuments is surveyed, as well as the distribution of (non-)inscribed graves: which types of graves were inscribed? How were these distributed topographically? Some graves were placed prominently along the so-called via sacra of Korykos, guaranteeing maximum visibility and readability. But neither seems to be a criterion for inscriptions in general, as in Diokaisareia many inscribed graves are also oriented along a road but too far away to be readable at all (or even placed in rock chamber graves, precluding any visibility). It is remarkable that in Karakabaklı and Işıkkale graves were placed in the settlements themselves, mostly close to architecturally sophisticated residential buildings, but none of them were inscribed (136). Secondly, the visualization of social status is evaluated, highlighting forms of religious and occupational self-presentation. While women were mostly mentioned as daughters of their fathers or wives of their husbands, they did assume certain positions in religious contexts (as...
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审核:Das Sepulkralwesen im Rauen Kilikien am Ende der Antike: Funerärarchäologie und Grabepigraphik einer spätantiken Landschaft by Jon Cubas Díaz Philipp Pilhofer Das Sepulkralwesen im Rauen Kilikien am Ende der Antike: Funerärarchäologie und Grabepigraphik einer spätantiken Landschaft Jon Cubas Díaz亚洲未成年学生98。波恩:Habelt-Verlag, 2021。第18页+ 226页。[披露:在2022年,这篇评论的作者一直在与本书的作者合作进行一个系列研讨会。土耳其南部崎岖不平的托罗斯山脉有大量的古代遗迹,但常常被人忽视。这本书正在审查调查在金牛座南部斜坡的一个小地区的丧葬景观,详细结合了考古遗迹的精确讨论与它的铭文背景。这是作者2018年在德国海德堡大学(University of Heidelberg)发表的博士论文的修订版。它是在Stephan Westphalen的赞助下,在德国联邦政府资助的Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 933“Materiale Textkulturen”的背景下编写的。这本书的标题大致翻译为“古代末期粗糙的西里西亚的坟墓文化:晚期古代景观的丧葬考古学和铭文”。作者是一名训练有素的拜占庭考古学家,主要分析了“丧葬习惯”在帝国时期和古代晚期是如何发展的(7)。“丧葬习惯”被作者定义为坟墓的设计、装饰、放置和铭文的方式。从地理上讲,这项研究的重点是被称为粗糙西里西亚的东部:西里西亚省(prima)和伊索里亚省的边境地区,即所谓的奥尔比安高地,以宙斯奥尔比奥斯的名字命名,他在这里的寺庙里受到了多年的尊敬。对七个城镇和村庄的墓地进行了分析:沿海城市(Elaiussa Sebaste, Korykos,还有Korasion),内陆陡峭峡谷之间的小村庄(Kanytelleis, karakabaklyi和Işıkkale),以及高原上的一个主要城市,海拔近1200米的Diokaisareia。这本书分为六个主要章节。在作了一些初步的评论(以及预先准备的英文摘要,十三至十七章)之后,逐一介绍了上述城镇和村庄(第二章:“案例研究”)。对每个地点的研究、定居、墓地和铭文的历史的评论构成了这本书中最长的一章。第3章(“铭文分析”)基于一个未发表的数据库,该数据库包括所有已知的丧葬铭文,这些铭文来自拉莫斯河和卡利卡德诺斯河之间的地区(也就是说,不仅来自上述地区;74)。在884个墓葬铭文中,只有两个是用拉丁文写的。在对古生物学和语言学问题进行了简短的讨论之后,我们从几个方面对这些铭文进行了分析,其中包括专门的、法律的、职业的(附录2,197-214,给出了一份按地点和铭文分类的提到的职业的完整列表)和宗教的。第4章(“丧葬纪念碑和它们的祖先”)第一次根据几乎整个地区的证据,而不仅仅是一两个城市,提出了丧葬纪念碑的类型学。第五章(“墓葬纪念碑与文脉中的文字”)主要从两个方面分析了金石与考古证据的结合。首先,调查了墓葬碑铭的放置情况,以及(非)碑铭的分布情况:哪些类型的墓葬被碑铭?它们在地形上是如何分布的?一些坟墓被放置在所谓的“科利科斯的圣路”(via sacra of Korykos)的显著位置,以保证最大程度的可视性和可读性。但这两者似乎都不是一般的碑文标准,因为在迪奥凯萨雷亚,许多刻有碑文的坟墓也是沿着道路的,但距离太远,根本看不清(或者甚至放在岩石墓室里,不让人看见)。值得注意的是,在karakabaklyi和Işıkkale,坟墓被安置在定居点本身,大多靠近建筑复杂的住宅建筑,但没有一个是刻在上面的(136)。其次,评估社会地位的可视化,突出宗教和职业自我呈现的形式。虽然女性大多被认为是父亲的女儿或丈夫的妻子,但她们确实在宗教背景中扮演着某些角色(如……)
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