Unit:
Specialty Greek and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: From the Bronze Age Palaces to the Hellenistic KingdomsLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Supervisors info:
Dr. David Scahill, Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Eurdice Kefalidou, Associate Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dimitrios Plantzos, Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Original Title:
The Transmission of Cult Architecture between Phrygian Gordion and the Classical Period at Athens
Translated title:
The Transmission of Cult Architecture between Phrygian Gordion and the Classical Period at Athens
Summary:
Recent adjustments made to the Yassihöyük Stratigraphic Sequence (YHSS) were made after archaeologists questioned the material culture found in the destruction level event at Phrygian Gordion. Using dendrochronological evidence from Gordion and additional material culture, the timeline of events was pushed back nearly a century, which in turn adjusted the entirety of the Anatolian Iron Age sequence. The results of this alteration were profound and led to the acceptance that Phrygian Gordion produced the earliest known polychromatic mosaic tile floor, the earliest known akroterion, and possibly the earliest known truss; all of which formed one of the earliest monumental buildings outside of Egypt, and well-before the move to monumentality by the Greeks. This first monumental building was Megaron 2, followed by Megaron 3 in the Citadel Mound at Gordion. This has led me to question the transmission of cult architecture from the Early and Middle Phrygian Periods at Gordion, c. 950 – 800 B.C. and c. 800 - 540 B.C. respectively, to determine the similarities in temple architecture from the Archaic and Classical Periods at Athens, c. 700 - 480 B.C. and c. 480 - 336 B.C.
Main subject category:
Archaeology
Keywords:
Phrygian, Gordion, Midas, Büyük-Menderes River, architecture, Lefkandi, apsidal, Hellespontine, megaron, megara, Athens, temple architecture, Anatolia, Greece, Turkey
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