Corpus of The Mosaics of Turkey. [Volume II]. Lycia. Xanthos, Part 2 - The West Area

133 sayfa. 24x32 cm
The present book forms the second volume in the Corpus of the Mosaics of Turkey, following upon the initial work on Xanthos published by Marie-Patricia Raynaud in 2009. This new volume broadens the documentation and appreciation of mosaic art in that city. Future monographs in the same series will turn to other archaeological sites in Turkey, whose vast mosaic treasures are gradually receiving the scholarly attention they deserve.

This entire project originated at a meeting of mosaic experts from six countries led by M. Şahin and D. Parrish and held at the American Research Institute in Turkey at Istanbul in 2004.

In this work, Anne-Marie Manière-Lévêque, a very experienced member of the French team that has been excavating at Xanthos for many years, carefully records and interprets mosaic pavements from the western part of Xanthos, which includes buildings with mosaic decoration on the Lycian Acropolis and in the “Roman” Agora. The pavements ornamented both domestic and religiou

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