The Archaeology of Phrygian Gordion, Royal City of Midas : : Gordion Special Studies 7 / / ed. by C. Brian Rose.

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• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Gunlög E.,; Ballard, Mary W.,; Burke, Brendan,; Darbyshire, Gareth,; DeVries, Keith,; Greenewalt, Crawford H.,; Lawall, Mark L.,; Liebhart, Richard F.,; Marsh, Ben,; Marston, John M.,; Matero, Frank,; Miller, Naomi F.,; Pizzorno, Gabriel H.,; Roller, Lynn E.,; Rose, C. Brian,; Sams, G. Kenneth,; Simpson, Elizabeth,; Vassileva, Maya,; Voigt, Mary M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rose, C. Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 13 color, 230 b/w illus.

Some of the most dramatic new discoveries in Asia Minor have been made at Gordion, the Phrygian capital that controlled much of central Asia Minor for close to two centuries. The most famous ruler of the kingdom was Midas, who regularly negotiated with Greeks in the west and Assyrians in the east during his reign. Excavations have been conducted at Gordion over the course of the last 60 years, all under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.In spite of the economic and political importance of Gordion and the Phrygians, the site is consistently omitted from courses in Old World archaeology, primarily because Gordion lies too far to the west for many Near Eastern archaeologists, and too far to the east for classical archaeologists. Moreover, there is no book that offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the material culture of Gordion during the Phrygian period, a gap that will be filled by this volume. The chapters cover all aspects of Gordion's Phrygian settlement topography from the arrival of the Phrygians in the tenth century B.C. through the arrival of Alexander the Great in 333 B.C., focusing on the site's changing topography and the consistently fluctuating interaction between the inhabitants and the landscape. A reexamination of the material culture of Phrygian Gordion is particularly timely, given the dramatic recent changes in the site's chronology, wherein the dates of many discoveries have changed by as much as a century. The authors are among the leading experts in Near Eastern archaeology, historic preservation, paleobotany, and ancient furniture, and their articles highlight the interdisciplinary nature of the Gordion project. A significant component of the book is a new color phase plan of the site that succinctly presents the topography in diachronic perspective.University Museum Monograph, 136

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Archaeology of Phrygian Gordion -- Mapping and the Landscape -- 2. Mapping Gordion -- 3. Reading Gordion Settlement History from Stream Sedimentation -- 4. Reconstructing the Functional Use of Wood at Phrygian Gordion through Charcoal Analysis -- The Early Phrygian Citadel -- 5. The New Chronology for Gordion and Phrygian Pottery -- 6. The Unfinished Project of the Gordion Early Phrygian Destruction Level -- 7. Pictures in Stone: Incised Drawings on Early Phrygian Architecture -- 8 Early Bronze Fibulae and Belts from the Gordion Citadel Mound -- Midas and Tumulus MM -- 9. Phrygian Tomb Architecture: Some Observations on the 50th Anniversary of the Excavations of Tumulus MM -- 10. Royal Phrygian Furniture and Fine Wooden Artifacts from Gordion -- 11 King Midas' Textiles and His Golden Touch -- 12. In the Shadow of Tumulus MM: The Common Cemetery and Middle Phrygian Houses at Gordion -- 13. The Throne of Midas? Delphi and the Power Politics of Phrygia, Lydia, and Greece -- The Middle and Late Phrygian Citadel -- 14. The Rebuilt Citadel at Gordion: Building A and the Mosaic Building Complex -- 15. Pontic Inhabitants at Gordion? Pots, People, and Plans of Houses at Middle Phrygian through Early Hellenistic Gordion -- Conservation Management at Gordion -- 16. Resurrecting Gordion: Conservation as Interpretation and Display of a Phrygian Capital -- 17. Working with Nature to Preserve Site and Landscape at Gordion -- 18 Gordion Through Lydian Eyes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Turkish Summary/Özetler -- Index