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To My Family and Uğraş Uzun - Bilkent University

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Wiegartz, 1978: 669). The “<strong>To</strong>rre Nova” group had been identified in the 1910<br />

article of G.E. Rizzo (Rizzo, 1910). The group includes those sarcophagi with an<br />

uninterrupted figured frieze on four sides of the chest, <strong>and</strong> with columns or Nikes<br />

at the four corners (Wiegartz, 1965: 17; Koch, 2001: 166). The name is taken<br />

from one of the most famous examples of the type, found in a villa called <strong>To</strong>rre<br />

Nova, on Via Labicana, near Rome (Koch, 2001: 266). Weig<strong>and</strong> suggested that<br />

this group was connected to the Asiatic columnar sarcophagi <strong>and</strong> must be<br />

included in the Lydian group (Weig<strong>and</strong>, 1914: 72; Morey, 1924: 43-46; Wiegartz,<br />

1965: 17; Wiegartz, 1978: 669; Waelkens, 1982: 1).<br />

The “Sarkophag-Corpus” was continued by G. Rodenwaldt after the First<br />

World War until his death in 1945 (Koch, 2001: 286). Rodenwaldt especially<br />

dealt with the iconography of sarcophagi, the connections between them, <strong>and</strong> the<br />

economic aspects of sarcophagus production (Wiegartz, 1978: 671). Like<br />

Weig<strong>and</strong>, Rodenwaldt also accepted that the <strong>To</strong>rre Nova group was connected to<br />

the Asiatic columnar sarcophagi, <strong>and</strong> he located the group in the Lycian-<br />

Pamphylian region (Rodenwaldt, 1933: 203).<br />

The next stage in sarcophagi studies was marked by C.R. Morey’s<br />

monograph about the “Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina”, where he<br />

classified the columnar sarcophagi, <strong>and</strong> the figure types on them, <strong>and</strong> their origins<br />

(Morey, 1924; Wiegartz, 1965: 9). Morey accepted Weig<strong>and</strong>’s Lydian <strong>and</strong><br />

Sidemara groupings <strong>and</strong> localized the production of the Lydian group in Ephesus,<br />

<strong>and</strong> the Sidemara group in northwestern Asia Minor (Morey 1924: 73-77;<br />

Wiegartz, 1965: 26). However, Weig<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Morey failed to agree on assigning<br />

individual sarcophagi to one or the other of these groups. For example, Morey<br />

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