A New Tetrarchic Relief from Nicomedia: Embracing Emperors

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dc.authoridSare Agturk, Tuna/0000-0002-7837-9204
dc.contributor.authorAgturk, Tuna Sare
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T21:19:52Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T21:19:52Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractAncient Nicomedia, the most important capital of the eastern Roman empire during the Tetrarchy, now lies below the modern industrial city of Izmit. The first systematic archaeological research on Diocletian's capital, supported with a grant from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), examines a series of monumental reliefs and statues from a terraced imperial cult complex, found in the cukurbag district at the heart of modern izmit. Excavations have brought to light more than 30 relief panels (average ht. 1.0 m x wdth. 1.5 m), the only surviving examples of Late Roman state reliefs that have extensive paint preserved on them. The panels illuminate multiple aspects of the art of the period, including the brightly colored costumes and the new and distinctive self-representation of the tetrarchic emperors and their administration. In this article, one of these relief panels, with a representation of two emperors embracing, is discussed as the precursor to the well-known porphyry Tetrarchs from Venice and the Vatican. It is argued that the relief panel is part of a larger adventus scene that shows the meeting of the two diarchs, Diocletian and Maximian, and thus dates from slightly before the onset of Tetrarchy in 293 C.E.(1)
dc.description.sponsorshipScientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [115K242]
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article stems from the Cukurbag Archaeological Project, a large ongoing project conducted with the permission of the Kocaeli Museum and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) (Project 115K242). I would like to express my gratitude to the Kocaeli Museum and TUBITAK for providing me and my team with the opportunity to conduct this project. Among the many people involved in the project, I would like to thank museum director Ridvan Golcuk and all his staff; the residents of the Cukurbag district who endured our research-basically on their doorstep; and Anka Restoration, Muka Architecture, and Orhan Cem Cetin Photography. Special thanks go to Mark Abbe for his work on the polychromy, and to graduate students Tolga Ozak and Firat Gokdemir. I would also like to express my gratitude to R. R. R. Smith and Clemente Marconi for their inspiration, and to Christopher Hallett, Brian Rose, and the anonymous reviewers for the AJA, whose criticisms improved this article. The location of the archaeological site within a dense urban environment prevents further excavation for now, but our research on the finds continues. A detailed monograph is currently being prepared for publication. Fig. 1 is my own.
dc.identifier.doi10.3764/aja.122.3.0411
dc.identifier.endpage426
dc.identifier.issn0002-9114
dc.identifier.issn1939-828X
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85051474988
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage411
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3764/aja.122.3.0411
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/28756
dc.identifier.volume122
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000469291000004
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherArchaeological Inst America
dc.relation.ispartofAmerican Journal of Archaeology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.titleA New Tetrarchic Relief from Nicomedia: Embracing Emperors
dc.typeArticle

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