Incised Drawings from Early Phrygian Gordion

192 Pages·2010·12.727 MB·English

by  Lynn E. Roller

The Incised Drawings from
Early Phrygian Gordion
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museum monograph 130
gordion special studies iv
The Incised Drawings from
Early Phrygian Gordion
Lynn E. Roller
university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology
philadelphia
Lynn E. Roller is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. She received her
A.B. and M.A. degrees from Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
A member of the Gordion Excavation Project since 1979, her research interests include Phrygian art,
epigraphy, and religion, and the relationships between ancient Anatolian civilizations and the Greek
world. She is the author of Gordion Special Studies I: The Non-Verbal Graffiti, Dipinti, and Stamps and In
Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele.
The publication of this volume was made possible by a generous grant from the Division of Humanities,
Arts, and Cultural Studies, College of Letters and Science, and the Office of Research, University of
California, Davis, and by a generous grant from an anonymous donor.
Figures 1–18, 66, 70–72, 74–76 are taken from photographs and plans in the Gordion Archives. All other photographs and
all drawings were done by the author.
CIP data is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-13: 978-1-934536-14-8 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1-934536-14-8 (cloth)
© 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Philadelphia, PA
All rights reserved. Published 2009
Published for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology by
the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.
Dedicated to the memory of Ellen Kohler, Keith DeVries, and Rodney S. Young.

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
I. Commentary on the Incised Drawings from Early Phrygian Gordion 1
Introduction 1
1. Excavation of the Incised Stones 3
2. Technique and Subject Matter of the Drawings 9
3. Subject Matter of the Incised Drawings: Sources and Possible Meanings 19
4. Origin of the Drawings and Their Placement on Megaron 2 39
5. Conclusion: Contribution of the Drawings to an Assessment of Early Phrygian 47
Cultural Development
II. Catalogue of Stones 1–105 with Incised Drawings 51
III. Figures, Including Photographs of Stones 1–105 101
IV. Concordances 159
1. Catalogue Number to Gordion Inventory Number 159
2. Gordion Inventory Number to Catalogue Number 161
3. Incised Stone Drawings: Subjects 163
4. Subjects Found in the Incised Stone Drawings 167
Bibliography 169
Index 175

Illustrations
Frontispiece. Map of Anatolia showing the location of Gordion and sites mentioned in the text
figures
1. General view of Gordion settlement showing location of Citadel Mound
2. Plan of the Early Phrygian Pre-Terrace Level, Gordion
3. Plan of the Early Phrygian Destruction Level, Gordion
4. Megaron 2 and enclosure wall to its west; Megaron 1 and Early Phrygian Gate
Complex in the background
5. Plan of Megarons 1 and 2 by J. S. Last, in 1956
6. Plan of Megarons 1 and 2 by J. S. Last, in 1957
7. Megaron 2 from north
8. Drawing of the pebble mosaic in the main room, Megaron 2, by J. S. Last
9. Actual state photograph of two piers of incised stones from the southeast corner of Megaron 2
10. Drawing of two piers of incised stones from the southeast corner of Megaron 2, by Dorothy H. Cox,
1956
11. Houses X and Y, behind Megaron 2
12. General view of rear or south wall of Megaron 2, showing stone piers with incised drawings in situ
13. Detail of incised blocks in situ, from south wall of Megaron 2
14. Drawing of incised stone piers from the south wall of Megaron 2, by J. S. Last
15. Incised stones in situ on west wall of Megaron 2
16. Photograph and drawing of poros akroterion found above Megaron 2
17. Poros lion found above Megaron 2
18. Poros lions found above Megaron 2
19. Comparison: 48 and lion from Yılantaş monument
20. Comparison: 80 and lion from Arslantaş monument
21–123. Stones 1–105