TY  - JOUR
TI  - NYSA AD MAEANDRUM CADDE 1-PLATEIA’DAN İKİ MERMER HEYKEL
AB  - Ongoing excavations and research in Nysa ad Maeandrum, a settlement obtaining impressive architectural remains, put forward many findings on the city's history in terms of the material culture. Finds, evaluated predominantly in secondary contexts, among the ruins of the Late Antique Peri-od, substantial in the city, also indicate the existence of a prosperous Roman Period. Nysa, with its three bridges, tunnels, stadiums and orthogonally planned street system built on the valley, constitutes a good example of Roman architecture and engineering of city planning in harmony with topography, in addition to its magnificent Roman monumental structures. Studies conducted in Street 1 - plateia, the central axis of the east-west directed city plan and the focus of the research on the city's street system, uncovered various sculptural artefacts as well as numerous architectural elements. In this context up to the present, many artefacts had documented varying in scale, material, chronology and iconography. Among the finds, two ideal statues representing a female and male are remarkable in their eligible craftmanship. The heads and feet of statues are lost, yet their height can determine as approximately 120 cm. The female figure, with its long, transparent wet chiton off the shoulder and leaving the left breast exposed, constitutes a reduced-size representation of the Louvre-Napoli type of the goddess Aphrodite. Similar to the archetype statue in posture and dress, it differentiates only with two strands of hair flowing on its shoulders. Close parallels to our example are statuettes of Aphrodite from the Pamphylian city Side. Determining the identity of the half-dressed male statue is more difficult. According to its reduced size, it can't be an official, usually repre-sented in this iconography. Its reduced size falls against the main aim of honouring and glorifying officials by setting up statues. However, the representations of divine and mythological characters have many func-tions, from worship to decoration, and their production varies in size. In Nysa's example, the figure lifts its right arm high and probably holds a spear or a sceptre. According to this posture, the figure has an icono-graphic analogy with representations of gods such as Zeus, Hades, Poseidon and Asclepius. Although its attribute lacks but probably holds a spear or sceptre, we can consider the statue as a depiction of the god Zeus, whose cult in Nysa is documented on the epigraphic ground. Based on stylistic and technical fea-tures, we might suggest the two statues have been made in the first half of the 2nd century AD. Accord-ing to their superficial back side, they probably have been intended to be displayed frontally. They are de-tected as Late Antique Period spolia, out of the original context and can't be associated with a building yet. Due to their height and intention to display frontally, we might suggest that they belong to a building with an elaborate facade, such as a nymphaeum, a library or a villa.
AU  - KESKİN, HAVA
AU  - öztaner, serdar hakan
DO  - 10.36891/anatolia.1206407
PY  - 2022
JO  - Anadolu
IS  - 48
SN  - 0570-0116
SP  - 157
EP  - 179
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/1147401
ER  -