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Two Finds in Central Anatolia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2015

W. H. C. Frend
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Situated about fifteen miles north of Karaman the Kara Dagh is an isolated volcanic massif which rises out of the Lycaonian plateau to a height of nearly 7,000 feet. In the first decade of the century Sir William Ramsay and Gertrude Bell spent three seasons surveying the archæological remains in the area. These include a great number of Byzantine churches and monasteries which have earned the Kara Dagh the name of Bin Bir Kilisse (“Thousand and One Churches”). Apart from the churches, however, the two authors recorded a majestic Hittite monument on Kızıl Dagh at the northern edge of the massif, and other evidences of a longstanding occupation in pre-Byzantine times which suggested that the Kara Dagh might preserve the remains of a continuous succession of cultures.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 6 , December 1956, pp. 95 - 100
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1956

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page 95 note 1 SirRamsay, William and Bell, Gertrude L., The Thousand and One Churches, London, 1909Google Scholar.

page 95 note 2 Ramsay and Bell, op. cit., 505 ff.

page 96 note 1 I would like to acknowledge the help of Mr. R. D. Barnett, F.S.A., Keeper of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities in the British Museum, in the preparation of this paper.

page 96 note 2 Described by Ramsay and Bell, as Church No. 1, op. cit., 41 ff.

page 96 note 3 I cannot identify this church from Ramsay and Bell's description. It is a small building 5·2 metres in length and 4·1 metres broad, preceded by a square paved courtyard, 4 metres each side. On the fallen lintel was a Byzantine cross. A few feet away stood the remains of a small round dwelling.

page 96 note 4 The dimensions of the rock itself are 2·15 m. high × 1·90 m. broad.

page 97 note 1 In a letter Mr. Barnett suggests that this may be meant for ΓΑΙΑ, in which event the relief may represent Gaia supplicating Zeus to send rain on her.

page 98 note 1 Ramsay, and Bell, , op. cit., 256Google Scholar.

page 98 note 2 Ramsay and Bell, op. cit., 183, Fig. 150.

page 98 note 3 Hardie, M. M., “The Shrine of Men Askaenos at Pisidian Antioch,” J.H.S., XXXII, 1912, 111 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 99 note 1 Ramsay and Bell, op. cit., 517. The sarcophagus was so prominently placed in Değile that I cannot believe that Ramsay and Bell missed it. On the other hand, they describe (loc. cit.) only “an agricultural scene very rudely sculptured, a man ploughing with two oxen and holding a goad”. On the stone which Wright and I saw, however, the ploughman was preceded by a second figure, a sower.

page 100 note 1 I am very grateful to Professor J. M. G. Toynbee for her help in interpreting the various figures on this sarcophagus.

page 100 note 2 See Haynes, D. E. L., “Mors in Victoria,” Papers of the British School at Rome, XV, N.S. ii, 1939, 27–32CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The figures can hardly be Dioscori who are generally represented barefoot.

page 100 note 3 Cox, C. W. M. and Cameron, A., Monumenta Asiae Minoris antiqua, V, nos. 60–77Google Scholar.