Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016

Abstract

Tumuli were the most widespread form of monumental tombs in the ancient world. Their impact on landscape, their allurement as well as their symbolic reference to a glorious past can still be felt today. The need of supraregional and crossdisciplinary examination of this unique phenomenon led to an international conference in Istanbul in 2009. With almost 50 scholars from twelve different countries participating, the conference entitled TumulIstanbul created links between fields of research which would not have had the opportunity to meet otherwise.

The proceedings of TumulIstanbul revolve around the question of the symbolic significance of burial mounds in the 1st millennium BC in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black-Sea regions, providing further insight into Kurgan neighbours from Eurasia.

Content

1–8 Susan Alcock, "Time Traveling Tumuli. The many lives of bumps on the ground. A general introduction", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 1–8
9–32 Alessandro Naso, "Tumuli in the Western Mediterranean, 800–500 BC. A review before the Istanbul Conference", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 9–32
35–42 Natascha Kreutz, "Two Tumuli for Battus in the Agora of Cyrene", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 35–42
43–53 Anne Marie Carstens, "Tumuli as Power Political Statements. On Tumuli in Cyprus in an East Mediterranean and Anatolian Context", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 43–53
57–74 Maria Grazia Amore, "The complex of Tumuli 9, 10 and 11 in the necropolis of Apollonia (Albania). A time span from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Helenistic Period", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 57–74
75–87 Lorenc Bejko, "Social Landscape and Tumuli Burials in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Southeastern Albania", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 75–87
89–99 Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe, "Defining Landscape. The Prehistoric Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 89–99
101–142 Barbara Schmidt-Dounas, "Macedonian Grave Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 101–142
143–161 Athanasia Kyriakou, "The History of a Fourth Century BC Tumulus at Vergina. Definitions in Space and Time", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 143–161
163–179 Elizabeth McGowan, "Tumulus and Memory. The Tumulus as a Locus for Ritual Action in the Greek Imagination", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 163–179
181–204 Maria Stamatopoulou, "Forging a Link with the Past. The Evidence from Thessalian Cemeteries in the Archaic and Classical Periods", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 181–204
205–217 Annie Schnapp-Gourbeillon, "Tumuli, Sema and Greek Oral Tradition", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 205–217
221–231 Inci Delemen, "Tumuli in Southeastern Thrace: On the Periphery?", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 221–231
233–242 Daniela Agre, "On the Untraditional Use of Mounds in Thrace during the Late Iron Age", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 233–242
243–259 Maria Chichikova, "The Hellenistic Necropolis of the Getic Capital at Sboryanovo (Northeastern Bulgaria)", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 243–259
261–268 Dejan Dichev, "The Commemorate Ritualism at Thracian Dolmens", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 261–268
269–280 Rumyana Georgieva, "Riders' Burials in Thrace", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 269–280
281–312 Kostadin Rabadjiev, "The Thracian Tomb as Ritual Space of the Beyond", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 281–312
313–338 Totko Stoyanov and Daniela Stoyanova, "Early Tombs of Thrace. Questions of Chronology and Cultural Context", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 313–338
339–358 Milena Tonkova, "A Fifth Century BC Tumulus with a Wooden Sarcophagus of the Upper Mesta Valley", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 339–358
359–370 Sahin Yildirim, "The Emergence and the Development of Tumuli in Eastern Thrace", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 359–370
373–386 C. Brian Rose and Reyhan Körpe, "The Tumuli of Troy and the Troad", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 373–386
387–406 Nicola Zwingmann, "Tumuli as Points of Interest in Greek and Latin Sources", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 387–406
407–428 Christina Luke and Christopher H. Roosevelt, "Memory and Meaning in Bin Tepe, the Lydian Cemetery of the 'Thousand Mounds'", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 407–428
429–444 Olivier Henry, "Marking Karian Soil. Lydian Tumuli in Karia, Sixth to Fourth Century BC", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 429–444
445–454 Orhan Bingöl, "A 'Door' between Two Worlds. A Reflection in Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 445–454
455–474 Adnan Diler, "Stone Tumuli in Pedasa on the Lelegian Peninsula. Problems of Terminology and Origin", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 455–474
475–490 Oliver Hülden, "Tumuli in Lykien. Ein Überblick über den Forschungsstand", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 475–490
491–500 Bilge Hürmüzlü, "Display of Power. The Mortuary Landscape of Pisidian Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 491–500
501–512 Latife Summerer and Alexander von Kienlin, "Roofing the Dead. Architectural Allusions in Anatolian Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 501–512
513–588 Donatella Ronchetta, "The Significance of the Tumulus Burial among the Funeral Buildings of Hierapolis of Phrygia", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 513–588
589–600 Guiseppe Scardozzi, "Tumuli in the Ancient Territory of Hierapolis and Phrygia", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 589–600
601–612 Ute Kelp, "Some Remarks on Tumuli of Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Times in Phrygia and the Development of Provincial Art", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 601–612
613–626 Taciser Tüfekci Sivas and Hakan Sivas, "Tumulus Tombs in Western Phrygia", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 613–626
627–636 Ben Marsh, Richard F. Liebhart, Gareth Darbyshire and Evin Erder, "A Fresh Look at the Tumuli of Gordion", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 627–636
637–648 Maya Vassileva, "'Royal' Tombs in Balkan-Anatolian Context. Representations of Status in Phrygian Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 637–648
649–656 Nicole Thierry, "Le Tumulus d'Avanos et la ville sainte du grand Zeus Ouranos", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 649–656
657–665 Owen Doonan, "Tumuli and the Expression of a Colonial 'Middle Ground' in the Hinterland Landscape of Greek Sinope", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 657–665
669–675 Marina Daragan, "The Use of GIS Technologies in Studying the Spatial and Time Concentration of Tumuli in the Scythain-time Lower Dnieper region", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 669–675
677–702 Leon van Hoof and Marlen Schlöffel, "Kurgans in the northeastern Azov Sea region. Proposals for a Geo-archaeological Research Program", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 677–702
705–717 Anton Gass, "Archäologische und geoarchäologische Untersuchungen im Siebenstromland", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 705–717
719–731 W. Gheyle, A. de Wulf, E.P. Dvornikov, A.V. Ebel, R. Goosens and Jean Bourgeois, "Early Iron Age Burial Mounds in the Altay Mountains. From Survey to Analysis", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 719–731