Friday, January 20th, 2012
5 pm
HUMN 250
This lecture reexamines the excavations at Kolophon in 1922 and 1925. Due to the disruption of the Greco-Turkish war, many of the monuments of the city have gone unpublished. This study reconstructs the important sanctuary discovered in these excavations -- the precinct of the local Mother goddess, Mētēr Antaiē -- on the basis of a new study of the excavators’ notebooks, catalogues, and photographs. It then considers the role of the sanctuary as the public archive of Kolophon, reconstructs the positioning of its archive of inscriptions, and discusses the importance of the sanctuary in the early Hellenistic period.
This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Classics. It is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome.
