Ionic-impost column capitals from Çanakkale
| dc.contributor.author | Çaylak Türker, Ayse | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-27T19:04:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-27T19:04:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.department | Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Hellespont area, due to its key geographical location dominates in production, consumption as well as trading contacts between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean in the Byzantine period. Despite this importance of its, its archaeological data are rather limited. This creates a serious problem in the research on the Byzantine period. We conduct archaeological surveys in order to determine the Byzantine settlements on the valleys reaching the Hellespont and in order to understand the settlement patterns. An important group of the findings we obtained from these project studies are architectural sculptures. Numerous specimens of column capitals used in the structures were detected besides the pieces belonging to liturgical use among the architectural plastic items. The subject of this study is the evaluation of ionic impost type of column capitals comprising one of the groups with a large number of items among the column capitals. With this study, it is aimed to understand the quality of buildings which no more exist in the region and to contribute to the localization problems of the settlements. The works evaluated here are the ionic impost type of column capitals we detected both in our surveys in Çanakkale and in our documentation studies in the Çanakkale Archaeology Museum. Forty-one specimens of the Ionic impost type of column capitals are found in our study area. Of the capitals, seven were left uncompleted, with their Ionic volutes and/or impost being roughly shaped. In four of them, the spirals of Ionic volutes were not engraved and the echinus, pulvinus and impost sections were left undecorated. In one of the capitals, the lower section with Ionic volutes was not completed, even though the front and rear faces of the impost contained decorations. In a capital, however, the pulvini, the spirals of the volutes on the rear face and the echinus were not engraved, although the Ionic volutes, the echinus and the impost decorations on the front face of the capital were completed. Of the capitals, seven have survived, with half or !4 of them being preserved. The Ionic impost column capitals we documented in our study area, display two basic characteristics of form. In the first one, the section containing the Ionic volutes is high and the volutes protrude towards the sides in a way that they go beyond the borders of the impost. The only specimen of this type is the capital which is exhibited inside the Bozcaada Castle and it is parallel with the specimens dated to the early 5th century. In the second type, the section containing the Ionic volutes is narrower and does not exceed the width of the impost. The specimens in this group can be evaluated in three groups according to the engraving of the Ionic volutes. In the first one, the spirals of Ionic volutes protrude from their beds. This group has eight specimens. Analogues of this type of capitals are dated to the last quarter of the 5th century according to their characteristic of form. Even though the volutes in the specimens of the second group are more evident and higher than those of the third group, the volutes were more schematically engraved and shortened in the third group. There are eleven capitals which might be evaluated in the second group. These capitals resemble the specimens of the late 5th century and the first half of the 6th century. There are 15 capitals in the third group. The capitals in this group can be dated to the second half of the 6th century according to their characteristics of form and analogues. Apart from one piece, the capitals we examined were made of marble. The types of marble used are gray veined white marble and white marble. The finds-pots of capitals indicate the settlement areas on both sides of the Hellespont. This demonstrates that the areas on the coasts of the Hellespont were intensively settled in the early Byzantine period. | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 368 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1301-7667 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 1 | |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-84946153683 | |
| dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q4 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 337 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/13911 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 22 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | |
| dc.language.iso | tr | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Olba | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | |
| dc.snmz | KA_Scopus_20250125 | |
| dc.subject | Architectural sculpture; Byzantine period; Column capital; Çanakkale; Ionic-impost | |
| dc.title | Ionic-impost column capitals from Çanakkale | |
| dc.title.alternative | Çanakkale'den ion-impost sütun başliklari | |
| dc.type | Article |
