Out of the Rock? Terracotta Figurines from Sagalassos in the Sadberk Hanım Museum in Istanbul

The contextualization of figurines that have been acquired by museums and that lack appropriate archaeological documentation is a growing trend in coroplastic research. This paper contributes to this trend by trying to reconstruct the context of some of the terracotta figurines kept at the Sadberk H...

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Hauptverfasser: Talloen, Peter, Özden-Gerçeker, G. Senem
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Les Carnets de l’ACoSt 2020
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Zusammenfassung:The contextualization of figurines that have been acquired by museums and that lack appropriate archaeological documentation is a growing trend in coroplastic research. This paper contributes to this trend by trying to reconstruct the context of some of the terracotta figurines kept at the Sadberk Hanım Museum in Istanbul. These objects could be identified as products of the coroplasts of Sagalassos (SW Turkey). What is more, there are several indications that suggest an exact origin for these figurines in a recently excavated cult site situated in the periphery of the Pisidian city. This in turn allows us to restore some of the social meaning of the terracottas and once again make them informative of the people that used them.