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- Title
AYDIN MESUTLU KÖYÜ'NDEN TERRAKOTTA FİGÜRİNLER.
- Authors
ÇEKİLMEZ, MURAT
- Abstract
The figurines that form the subject of this article were discovered in 1993 in the village of Mesutlu, 11 km. southeast of Aydın. These figurines were each cast in a mold. The clay is rather coarse but homogeneous, of a pale red color and contains a fair amount of mica. TK. 1 depicts Heracles, a youthful nude figure, his right hand, head band, club and lion skin were broken but have been completely reconstructed. TK. 2 and 3 are typical figurines depicting Attis. They stand in a relaxed pose and both wear a Phrygian cap, tunica manicata and anaxyrides and the typology of these examples are comparable with finds from other contemporary settlements and contexts. Some parallels and the contexts of these finds allow us to date them to the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods. From stylistic and typological comparison these Mesutlu terracotta finds were products of the city of Tralleis.
- Subjects
HELLENISTIC terra-cotta figurines; ROMAN terra-cotta figurines; HERACLES (Greek mythological character) in art; HELLENISTIC sculpture; ROMAN sculpture
- Publication
CEDRUS, 2013, Vol 1, p201
- ISSN
2147-8058
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13113/CEDRUS/20131686