The display of wealth, status and power: two recently discovered mid-fourth-century BC pebble-mosaic floors from Sinope

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dc.contributor.authorKaba, Hazar
dc.contributor.authorAksoy, Eray
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-23T19:35:54Z
dc.date.available2025-03-23T19:35:54Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentSinop Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractIn 2019, excavation in the Yalnizlar neighbourhood of Sinop, Turkey, revealed a small number of architectural remains, two stone-paved floors and two lavishly decorated pebble-mosaic floors. Both the architectural remains and the pebble-mosaic floors are rare finds in Sinop, even more so given that the floors were found largely intact within their architectural settings. These elements appear to have constituted a portion of a once-grand house of the mid-fourth century BC. This article focuses on the pebble-mosaic floors, which will be analysed in two parts. The first introduces the floors and considers their construction techniques and decorative programmes. Analogies form an essential part of the analysis in order to contextualise both pavements within the corpus of Greek pebble-mosaic floors. A holistic evaluation of the architectural remains and the mosaics follows, in order to consider the setting and use of the floors. In the second part of the article, the sociocultural context of the mosaics is addressed. The analysis considers the meaning and symbolism of their decorations, as well as the place they once occupied within the lives of their owners. Ultimately, the position of the examples from Sinope within the wider sphere of mid-fourth-century BC Greek pebble-mosaic floors will be considered, along with the significance of such lavishly decorated floors in Sinope at this time.
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0066154622000060
dc.identifier.endpage139
dc.identifier.issn0066-1546
dc.identifier.issn2048-0849
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85135460301
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage117
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154622000060
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11486/5959
dc.identifier.volume72
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000972884500007
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge Univ Press
dc.relation.ispartofAnatolian Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250323
dc.subjectBlack-Sea
dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.titleThe display of wealth, status and power: two recently discovered mid-fourth-century BC pebble-mosaic floors from Sinope
dc.typeArticle

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