Karia and the Dodekanese: Cultural Interrelations in the Southeast Aegean, Volume II: Early Hellenistic to Early Byzantine

Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II , presents new research that highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the Southeast Aegean and western Asia Minor over a period of more than 700 years. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilizations. Modern geographical limitations have been influential on both archaeological investigations and how we approach cultural relations in the region. Comprehensive and valuable research has been carried out on many individual sites in Karia and the Dodekanese, but the results have rarely been brought together in an attempt to paint a larger picture of the culture of this region. In antiquity, the sea did not constitute an obstacle to interaction between societies and cultures, but was an effective means of communication for the exchange of goods, sculptural styles, architectural form and embellishment, education, and ideas. It is clear that close relations existed between the Dodekanese and western Asia Minor during the Classical period (Vol. I), but these relations were evidently further strengthened under the shifting political influences of the Hellenistic kings, the Roman Empire, and the cosmopolitan late antique period. The contributions in this volume comprise investigations on urbanism, architectural form and embellishment, sculpture, pottery, and epigraphy. Contents List of contributors Abbreviations Preface • Birte Poulsen, Poul Pedersen, and John Lund Introduction • Birte Poulsen, Poul Pedersen, and John Lund Hellenistic period 1. Hellenistic sculpture as artistic expression of a wide geographical and political unity: the case of Rhodos and its relations to Karia • Κalliope Bairami 2. Knidian fine ware in Rhodos – a first assessment • Lisa Betina 3. Relations between Karia, the Dodekanese and South Italy: the case studies of Knidos and Paestum • Christine Bruns-Özgan 4. Karian reflections in Halasarna, Kos • Nikolas Dimakis and Giorgos Doulfis 5. Relations between the Dodekanese, Karia and Alexandria: the case of the sculpture • Elena Ghisellini 6. The impact of Knidian fine wares on the local market and pottery production of Halasarna on Kos during the Hellenistic and Roman periods • Dimitris Grigoropoulos and Edyta Marzec 7. Mutual influences between Dodekanesian and Karian sanctuaries in the Hellenistic period: the Sanctuaries of Apollo in Loryma and Amos, and the “Corinthian Temple” in Kaunos • Winfried Held 8. The moving movers. Foreigners buried on Kos in the Hellenistic period • Kerstin Höghammar 9. Early Ptolemaic Halikarnassos (ca. 280–260 BC) and its network of interactions • Jan-Mathieu Carbon and Signe Isager 10. Tracing networks of the Hellenistic amphora market: a study based on Rhodian, Knidian and Koan transport amphoras • Nikoline Sauer 11. The language of Koan architecture between Synoikism and Late Hellenism • Giorgio Rocco 12. Building projects in the Rhodian State: local dynamics and interrelations • Stella Skaltsa 13. Cultural interdependence between Kos and Karia as illustrated by the grave markers (semata) of the • Hellenistic periodChrysanthi Tsouli Imperial period 14. Kos: the official language of the Imperial architecture • Monica Livadiotti 15. Amphorae from the southeastern Aegean in Pannonia • Anna Andrea Nagy, Piroska Magyar-Hárshegyi, and György Szakmány Late Antiquity 16. The Early Byzantine architecture in Kos and the interactions with the nearby regions of Asia Minor • Isabella Baldini and Claudia Lamanna 17. The cult of Saint Kerykos in the Dodekanese: the evidence of the Rhodian Peraia • Angeliki Katsioti and Nikolaos Mastrochristos 18. Across the waves. Early Christian paintings on Kalymnos and Karia • Michalis Kappas and Konstantia Kefala 19. The “School of Kos” and architectural koine in the southeastern Aegean during Late Antiquity • Giuseppe Mazzilli 20. A mosaic in Halikarnassos: cultural interrelations between Halikarnassos and the Dodekanese during • Late AntiquityBirte Poulsen Index "The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. I, focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilizations. Cultural achievements of exceptional and everlasting importance, including significant creations of ancient Greek literature, philosophy, art and architecture, originated in the coastal cities of western Anatolia and the adjoining Aegean islands. In the fourth century BC, the eastern cities experienced a new economic boom, and a revival of Archaic culture, sometimes termed ‘The Ionian Renaissance’, began. The cultural revival furthered rebuilding of old major works such as the Artemision at Ephesos, the embellishment of sanctuaries and a new royal architecture, such as the Maussolleion at Halikarnassos. The rich cultural revival was initially promoted by the satrapal family of the Hekatomnids in Karia and in particular by its most famous member, Maussollos, whose influence was not confined to Asia Minor, but included the Dodekanese islands Kos and Rhodos. Partly under the influence of the Karian satrapy, a number of cities were founded on a new common urban model in Rhodos, Halikarnassos, Priene, Knidos and Kos. When Alexander the Great conquered the satrapies in western Asia Minor in 334 BC, the culture initially promoted at the satrapal courts was carried on by gifted thinkers, poets and architects, preparing the way for Hellenistic cultural centres such as Alexandria"-- Provided by publisher Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II, presents new research that highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the Southeast Aegean and western Asia Minor over a period of more than 700 years. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilizations.0Modern geographical limitations have been influential on both archaeological investigations and how we approach cultural relations in the region. Comprehensive and valuable research has been carried out on many individual sites in Karia and the Dodekanese, but the results have rarely been brought together in an attempt to paint a larger picture of the culture of this region. In antiquity, the sea did not constitute an obstacle to interaction between societies and cultures, but was an effective means of communication for the exchange of goods, sculptural styles, architectural form and embellishment, education, and ideas. It is clear that close relations existed between the Dodekanese and western Asia Minor during the Classical period (Vol. I), but these relations were evidently further strengthened under the shifting political influences of the Hellenistic kings, the Roman Empire, and the cosmopolitan late antique period. The contributions in this volume comprise investigations on urbanism, architectural form and embellishment, sculpture, pottery, and epigraphy __Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II__