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To My Family and Uğraş Uzun - Bilkent University

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Antakya sarcophagus is proposed <strong>and</strong> the controversial issues related to the<br />

chronology of the Docimeum sarcophagi are presented.<br />

There have been, of course, difficulties in this study. First of all, one has<br />

to be content with written descriptions of the comparable sarcophagi most of the<br />

time, as clear photography showing the details of their decoration is lacking for<br />

the majority. A second difficulty is related to the lack of any recent study of the<br />

Asiatic columnar sarcophagi <strong>and</strong> their accepted chronology. The available<br />

chronology was a constraint for proposing a relative date for the Antakya<br />

Sarcophagus as it is clearly imperfect. A more reliable chronology could have<br />

resulted in a more absolute date for the Antakya Sarcophagus. A final difficulty is<br />

that there are diverse <strong>and</strong> controversial scholarly ideas about the identification<br />

<strong>and</strong> symbolism of some figures on the columnar sarcophagi. These figures also<br />

exist on the Antakya Sarcophagus, <strong>and</strong> they had to be presented without a certain<br />

identification. These difficulties, however, prove that there is a necessity for<br />

future studies. It seems that the Docimeum columnar sarcophagi <strong>and</strong> the Antakya<br />

Sarcophagus will continue to keep their position as a colourful <strong>and</strong> an endless<br />

source of research.<br />

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