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:
Sea People
Sea People: name of several groups of marauders, mentioned in several Egyptian sources as enemies of king Merenptah (r.1213-1203 BCE) and king Ramesses III (r.1184-1152). Their appearance is related to the demise of the Mediterranean Bronze Age system in the…Side
Side: Greek colony in Pamphylia, important port in the Roman Empire.Early History In the late seventh century BCE, Greek settlers from Cyme built Side on a rocky promontory on the Pamphylian shore, about ten kilometers west of the mouth of the…
Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 4, Lycian sarcophagus |
Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 4, Lycian sarcophagus, Sphinxes |
Sillyum from the west |
Sillyum (Nebiler)
Sillyum (Greek Σίλλυον): town in ancient Pamphylia. Sillyum from the west Situated on an inaccessible table mountain that rises 213 meter above sea…Socrates Chrestus of Bithynia
Socrates Chrestus: rebel king in Bithynia (r.c.90 BCE)Nicomedes IV Philopator, a son of Nicomedes III Euergetes and Nysa of Cappadocia, inherited the Bithynian throne in an unquiet age, with Mithridates VI of Pontus as a dangerous neighbor. He supported Socrates Chrestus,…Stratonicea
Stratonicea (Greek Στρατoνίκεια): an ancient city in Caria, modern Eskihisar.History Statue of a Roman governor Founded early in the third century BCE…Sulaymaniyah Museum
Archaeological Museum of the Kurdish part of Iraq, with finds from the Prehistory until Ottoman times. Includes finds from Hatra. There are 3 items in Sulaymaniyah Museum: …
Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject spltj3 (OP. Sparda = Lydia) |
Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject gdpdk3y (OP. Katpatuka = Cappadocia) |
Syennesis
Syennesis: title of the native king of Cilicia, whose palace was at Tarsus. The Luwian word suuannassai means "belonging to the dog", a title that is well attested although its meaning remains unclear. Three leaders with this name are known.Syennesis…