Some Thoughts on the Troy Type Owl-Headed Idols of Western Anatolia

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dc.contributor.authorYilmaz, Derya
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:29:22Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:29:22Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe subject of this study is a marble idol recovered at the Maydos Kilisetepe mound located near the town of Eceabat in the province of epsilon anakkale in Turkey. The idol belongs to a type known as a Troy type, specifically Type 2C of Blegen's typology. It is also known as an owlheaded idol, as proposed by Schliemann. The distribution maps of these idols show that they are widely found in western Anatolia. There are no identical examples from local settlement sites; on the contrary they all vary. The contexts of the idols, which in the majority of cases come from domestic contexts, are examined in greater detail to reach a better understanding of their use. From this we conclude that the idols were employed within a domestic cult environment. The chronology of the owl-headed idols is also considered; they appear in the middle to late Early Bronze Age but continued to be used at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age. The idols reflect the beliefs of the people and probably symbolise the mother-goddess who had the role of protecting the household. Owlfaced goddess representations also figure on pottery and stelae of the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia, Syria and the western Mediterranean as far west as the Iberian Peninsula. The artefacts considered in this article suggest that wide-ranging contacts existed in a geographical area encompassing Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean.
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/pz-2016-0026
dc.identifier.endpage378
dc.identifier.issn0079-4848
dc.identifier.issn1613-0804
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85003518590
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage369
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2016-0026
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/22924
dc.identifier.volume91
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000389639500005
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWalter De Gruyter Gmbh
dc.relation.ispartofPraehistorische Zeitschrift
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectowl-headed idols
dc.subjectMaydos Kilisetepe
dc.subjectEarly Bronze Age
dc.subjectwestern Anatolia
dc.subjectTroy
dc.subjectidols
dc.titleSome Thoughts on the Troy Type Owl-Headed Idols of Western Anatolia
dc.typeArticle

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