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Game of Elephant Hunting: Empires and Animals in the Hellenistic Period
This article demonstrates how the Hellenistic empire served as an environmental regime that had a significant impact on the Afro-Eurasian landscape. The first section shows that, contrary to the usual understanding that Alexander introduced the use of elephants in Hellenistic kingship, he actually developed the art of combatting elephants. The second section demonstrates how the Seleucid Empire developed the use of elephants after they were introduced to Central Asia by Mauryan India. The third section displays that the Seleucid deployment of Indian elephants prompted the Ptolemies to hunt African elephants by expanding into eastern Africa to tackle the Seleucid army.
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The Hellenistic weights of Berytos - Laodicea of Phoenicia (185/184?-64/63 bc)
Abstract – The corpus of the lead weights from Hellenistic Berytos totalizes twenty-three specimens (185/184?-64/63). It is based on an unfinished and unpublished corpus prepared by Henri Seyrig in the 1960s and 1970s. Since then, several of its sixteen weights have been lost, others appeared on the antiquity market or were discovered during official archaeological excavations. Nineteen emissions are identified. Their study sheds new light on the political status, the ponderal systems and the agoranomoi of the city.
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Insularity and Religious Life: The Case of Hellenistic Ikaros/Failaka Island
This paper explores the notion of insularity and religious life in the sacred landscape of Ikaros/Failaka with a particular focus on the Hellenistic period. The little island of Ikaros/Failaka in the Persian Gulf had a long pre-Hellenistic religious history and was occupied by Alexander, explored by his officials and became part of the Seleucid kingdom. From the mid-20th century, archaeological missions working on the nesiotic space of the Persian Gulf have revealed material evidence that has altered our view of this remote part of the Hellenistic world. Research revealed a flourishing network of cultural communication and contacts between the indigenous population of the East and Greco-Macedonians. These interactions mirror the landscape of the Hellenistic East. Thus Ikaros/Failaka, an island on the periphery of the Seleucid kingdom, situated at a strategic point (near the mouth of the River Euphrates and close to the shores of the Persian Gulf) appears to be part of a chain of locations that possessed political/military, economic, and religious importance for the Seleucids. It became a fruitful landscape, where the Seleucids pursued their political and religious agenda.
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Time and its adversaries in the Seleucid empire
Time and Resistance in the Seleucid Empire investigates the relationship between the formal temporal structures projected by the Seleucid imperial court and the indigenous temporalities that responded to, undermined, and ultimately resisted these. The complex and competing temporalities of the Hellenistic East - a site of intense creativity in conceptualizing time - have either been unnoticed in scholarship or treated in isolation. Understanding the interactions of these time systems as a coherent phenomenon of cultural and political history will provide new contexts and integrated explanations for questions central to both the classical Mediterranean world - such as post-Alexander state formation and \"Hellenization\" - and Near Eastern and religious studies - such as textual canonization and the emergence of apocalyptic theologies. The book's first half explores, above all, the invention and institutionalization of the Seleucid Era year count. This was the world's first continuous, irreversible, accumulating, and transcendent count of historical duration. The second part examines the Seleucid subjects' intellectual, religious, and political responses to this radically new temporal order. These include, most significantly, the first emergence of apocalyptic eschatology, that is, total histories of the world, from beginning to predicted end.-- Provided by publisher
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The Syrian Wars
The two-century long conflict over Syria between Seleukids and Ptolemies was the central diplomatic and military matter of the Hellinistic period. By examining it for the first time in detail, its importance can at last be seen.
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THE OLDEST STONE BRIDGE OF ANATOLIA: THE TARSUS BRIDGE
Kilikia Bölgesinin en önemli kentlerinden biri olan Tarsusta 2007 yilinda gerçekleştirilen kazilar sirasinda bir köprüye ait anitsal bir kemere ulaşilmiştir. Kemerin formu, kazicilari tarafindan segment kemer olarak tanimlanmiş ve yapinin MS 1. yüzyila tarihlenmesi önerilmiştir. Ancak, köprünün özellikle memba tarafinda yoǧunlaşan girift yapilanmadan dolayi yapiya ait bazi bölümler gözden kaçirilmiş ve gerek kemer formunun deǧerlendirilmesi gerekse de tarihlemesi eksik bulgulardan hareketle yapilmiştir. Dolayisiyla bu makalede, köprünün yeni tespit edilen özelliklerinden yola çikilarak inşa tarihinin yeniden deǧerlendirmesi ve netleştirilmesi amaçlanmaktadir. Doǧu-bati doǧrultusunda uzanan köprüye mansap cephesinden bakildiǧinda anitsal kemer, 5-6 sira blok taştan oluşturulan ve yükseltilmiş olan düz ayaklar üzerine oturtulmuş gibi bir izlenim vermektedir. Memba cephesinde ise kemerin özellikle doǧu tarafta kalan sinirli bir bölümü görülmektedir. Bu cephede köprü kemerinin ayak üzerine oturtulmadiǧi ve ayaktan itibaren doǧu yönde devam ettiǧi görülmektedir. Üstelik ayni cephede, kemer formunun hatali deǧerlendirilmesine yol açan köprü ayaǧinin kemer alnina ulaşmadan tonoz içinde sonlandiǧi takip edilebilmektedir. Dolayisiyla söz konusu ayaklarin, yapinin tonoz içlerine sonraki bir evrede eklenmiş olabileceǧi düşünülebilir. Köprünün memba tarafinda yeni tespit edilen özelliklerden dolayi öncelikle köprü kemerinin segment kemer deǧil üç merkezli kemer formunu yansittiǧi anlaşilmaktadir. Dahasi bu formun Roma Dönemi köprü mimarisinde kullanimi söz konusu deǧildir. Analojik deǧerlendirmeler sonucunda, bu formun en yakin benzerinin Rodosta olduǧu anlaşilmaktadir. Rodostaki tonozlu yapi bir köprüden ziyade bir drenaj kanalini örtmekte ve inşa tarihi için Hellenistik Dönem önerilmektedir. Bunun yaninda Tarsus Köprüsünde diyagonal kemer taşlarinin cephede demir kenetlerle baǧlanmiş olmasi ve yapi genelinde harç kullanilmamiş olmasi da dikkate deǧer niteliklerdir. Tarsus Köprüsünün mimari özellikleri ve inşa tekniǧi hakkinda da bazi tespitlerde bulunmak mümkün olmuş ve yapilan analizler sonucunda yapinin sergilediǧi özelliklerin Hellenistik Dönem'e işaret ettiǧi sonucuna ulaşilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgulardan hareketle ele alinan köprünün inşa tarihinin belirlenebilmesi için Tarsusun Hellenistik Dönem tarihi irdelenmiştir. Böylece tarihlemenin saǧlam kanitlara dayandirilmasi amaçlanmiştir. Hellenistik Dönemde özellikle Seleukoslar tarafindan bölgenin öteki kentleri ile birlikte Tarsus'ta da bazi politik düzenlemelere gidilmiştir. Gerek tarihsel baǧlam gerekse de analojik deǧerlendirmeler ve ele alinan yapinin sergilediǧi mimari özellikler; köprünün Hellenistik D önemde inşa edilmiş olabileceǧine işaret etmektedir. Tarsus Köprüsü'nün sergilediǧi özellikler, tarihsel süreçle de ilişkilendirilmekte ve yapinin inşa tarihi için MÖ 2. yüzyil önerilmektedir.
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