Anatolia
This category deals with an area that is more or less identical to modern Turkey, prior to, say, Alexander the Great.
There are 566 items in Anatolia:
Hattusa, Statuette of a warrior |
Hattusa, Treaty between king Tudhaliya IV and king Karunta of Tarhuntašša |
Hecatomnus of Mylasa
Hecatomnus of Mylasa: satrap of Caria between 391 and 377, founder of the Hecatomnid dynasty. Coin of Hecatomnus Hecatomnus was the son…Hellespontine Phrygia
Hellespontine Phrygia: Persian satrapy in northwestern Anatolia. Its capital was Dascylium. Magians with a sacrifice of a sheep and a bull The…Herodian 1.11
Herodian (late second, first half third century): Greek historian, author of a History of the Roman Empire since the Death of Marcus Aurelius in which he describes the reign of Commodus (180-192), the Year of the Five Emperors (193), the age…Herodotus on Candaules, his wife, and Gyges
At the beginning of the first book of hi Histories, Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus tells the story of the coup d'état of the Lydian ruler Gyges. The entire story, with three actors, appears to be based on a play.…Herodotus on Sesostris' Reliefs
Sesostris' Reliefs: two reliefs, presented by Herodotus as evidence that a great Egyptian king once conquered almost the whole world. The…Herodotus, bk 1, logos 1
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429 BCE): Greek researcher, often called the world's first historian. In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid Empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, and Darius I the Great, culminating in Xerxes' expedition to Greece (480 BCE), which met with disaster…Hittites
Hittites: ancient nation in Central Anatolia, named after their capital Hattusa, builders of one of the great Bronze Age empires.Origin Kaneš, the…
Iconium, Lydian vase |
Idrieus
Idrieus: satrap of Caria between 351 and 344, member of the Hecatomnid dynasty. Labraunda, Hecatomnid tomb Idrieus (or Hidrieus as he is…
Ikiztepe Usak, Incense burner |