Ahrens Sven - Life and death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times: studies in archaeology and bioarchaeology

Contents

Francesco DAndria

Giuseppe Scardozzi

Donatella Ronchetta

Caroline Laforest, Dominique Castex, and Frdrique Blaizot

Gl In and Ertan Yldz

Taner Korkut and ilem Uygun

Esen

Sven Ahrens

Andrew L. Goldman

Martin Steskal

Christopher S. Lightfoot

Camilla Cecilie Wenn, Sven Ahrens, and J. Rasmus Brandt

Gro Bjrnstad and Erika Hagelberg

Megan Wong, Elise Naumann, Klervia Jaouen, and Michael Richards

Johanna Propstmeier, Olaf Nehlich, Michael P. Richards, Gisela Grupe, Gundula H. Mldner, and Wolf-Rdiger Teegen

Wolf-Rdiger Teegen

Henrike Kiesewetter

Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz

F. Arzu Demirel

Jan Novek, Kristina Scheelen, and Michael Schultz

Acknowledgements

In 2007 the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo, on the generous invitation of Prof. Francesco DAndria, the director of the Italian Archaeological Mission at Hierapolis in Phrygia, started archaeological investigations of the North-East Necropolis at Hierapolis. The excavations and accompanying surveys, lasting till 2014, were primarily financed by a mixture of public and private funds, while a research project built up around the fieldwork, Thanatos: Dead bodies Live data. A study of funerary data from the Hellenistic-Roman-Byzantine town Hierapolis in Phrygia, Turkey, was financed by the Norwegian Research Council (2010-2013).

The present publication is the result of an international conference held at Oslo and Fredrikstad, in Norway, Oct. 7-10, 2013, a conference which tried to sum up the results of three preceding annual workshops on Anatolian funerary archaeology in historical times, held in respectively Rome, Istanbul, and Lecce, all financed by the Thanatos project. To the conference were invited both scholars who had participated at one or more of the preceding workshops, but also new participants to expand on some of the previous arguments. The publication contains both papers, in elaborated form, presented at the conference, but also some developed from arguments presented at the one or more of the preceding annual workshops. In addition, two articles (by respectively Giuseppe Scardozzi and Michael Schultz and Tyede. H. Schmidt-Schultz) were put forward in the preparative stages of the present publication. They both add important information to the volume.

Without generous financial support from various public and private institutions our excavations at Hierapolis would never have taken place. For these important contributions we are very grateful to the University of Oslo (Smforsk), Institutt for sammenliknende kulturforskning, Statskraft, Rainpower ASA, Sigval Bergesen d.y. og hustru Nankis stiftelse til almennyttige forml, Stiftelsen Thomas Fearnley, Nils og Heddy Astrup, and Hans Rasmus Astrup.

Without the excavations the workshops and concluding conference would never have taken place. For this the Norwegian Research Council, through the Thanatos project, is to be thanked. The Norwegian Research Council has also offered, for which we are most grateful, a generous financial contribution towards the publication of the present volume

When it comes to the arrangement of the three three-day international workshops we are very grateful to the technical and administrative support from the respective persons and institutions:

2010, in Rome: The Norwegian Institute in Rome, by its then director prof. Turid Karlsen Seim, the administration, Ms. Anne Nicolaysen and Ms. Mona Elisabeth Johansen, and the caretaker couple Ms. Anna Muzi and Mr. Nicola Quinzi. Our thanks also go to Dr Maria Cataldi Dini of the then Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici dellEtruria Meridionale for help in obtaining permission to visit Etruscan tombs at Tarquinia otherwise closed to the public, during the last days excursion.

2011, in Istanbul: The Swedish Research Institute, by its then deputy director Dr Marianne Boqvist and administrative staff, Ms. Helin emmikanl and Ms. Birgitta Kurultay; and also to Institut franais dtudes Anatoliennes and its pensionnaire scientifique for archaeology, Dr. Olivier Henry, who hosted the workshop for one day. Mr. Muhsin Baser at Pakero Travel gave the participants an interesting tour of Istanbul the final day of the workshop.

2012, in Lecce: Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia at Universit del Salento, by its director prof. Francesco DAndria and dott. Corrado Notario, and the mayor of Cavallino, Mr. Michele Lombardi, for opening the workshop at the Convento dei Domenicani. For practical matters like lodging in bed and breakfast places, dinners, and local transport much valuable help was offered by the Lecce Information office, in particular Mr. Marco Bianchi and the chauffeur Mr. Dario Cava. Ms. Emanuela DAndria gave us a much appreciated evening tour of the town and prof. DAndria gave the group a tour to some of his important Messapian excavations in the Salento peninsula: Cavallino, Vaste, Chiesa di S. Stefano, and Castro, while the last afternoon visit to Otranto was left for the participants to enjoy for themselves.

For the arrangement of the conference at Oslo and Fredrikstad in 2013 our sincere thanks go to Anne Siri Wathne at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, for practical support regarding the arrangement of the part of the conference which started in Oslo; to Christine Lande at the Museums of the stfold County, who went beyond the call of duty to make the arrangements for the part of the conference which was held at Isegran, part of the old defence works of the 16th-century town Fredrikstad, a success; to Ms. Camilla Cecilie Wenn who, without asking, took upon herself the practical task of administering the breakfast and lunches at Isegran and making certain everyone was comfortable; to Ms. Liv Skjelbred, at the information office at Fredrikstad, who arranged an afternoon boat trip with freshly cooked shrimps in the old ferry boat Skjrhalden to the archipelago outside Fredrikstad, at the inlet to the Oslofjord; and to Mr. Wiggo Andersen, who connected us to the right people in Fredrikstad and gave us a tour of the old town and arranged for a dinner serving wine produced in his own vineyard in South Africa; and to prof. Jan Bill, the director of the Viking Ship Museum (part of the University of Oslo), for offering a most interesting tour of the museum the last day of the conference.

Regarding the publication of the present volume our sincere thanks go to Ms Priscilla Field, who diligently copy-edited all the papers written by the non-native English speakers. For any mistakes which remain the editors take the blame.

Sincere thanks go to the staff of Oxbow Books for their professional handling of this publication from our first preliminary request to the final product. These expressions of thanks are also extended to the anonymous peer reviewers, who made very valuable suggestions to improve the quality of the publication. In particular, we should like to thank Ms Clare Litt, who patiently has supported this publication project from its inception.

Last, but not least, we should like to thank all the participants (no one mentioned, no one forgotten), both those from the workshops and those from the concluding conference, who all contributed to making the workshops and the conference successful events, and in particular to those who found the time and energy to rewrite their papers into what makes up this book. We were very touched by their many expressions of thanks afterwards.

J. Rasmus Brandt, Erika Hagelberg,
Gro Bjrnstad, and Sven Ahrens
Oslo, November 2015

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