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To My Family and Uğraş Uzun - Bilkent University

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There are basically three types of sarcophagi produced in Docimeum:<br />

garl<strong>and</strong> sarcophagi; sarcophagi with figured friezes; <strong>and</strong> columnar sarcophagi<br />

(Koch, 2001: 165-171). The Docimeum garl<strong>and</strong> sarcophagi (Fig. 3), which take<br />

their name from the garl<strong>and</strong>s carried by erotes <strong>and</strong> Nikes, are a group quite<br />

distinct from other Anatolian garl<strong>and</strong> sarcophagi <strong>and</strong> those produced in Rome<br />

<strong>and</strong> Athens, the other major producers of this type (Koch, 2001: 165). Sarcophagi<br />

with figured friezes include those that have uninterrupted friezes along all four<br />

sides, or those with Nikes or columns in the corners: the latter group, with<br />

columns, is called the “<strong>To</strong>rre Nova” group (Fig. 4) (Koch, 2001: 166). The third<br />

type, columnar sarcophagi, were the most frequently produced type at<br />

Docimeum, represented by over 250 examples among the approximately 500<br />

known examples of all Docimeum sarcophagi (Koch, 2001: 169).<br />

Columnar sarcophagi can further be divided into four sub-types, which are<br />

thought to reflect a chronological order (Fig. 5) (Wiegartz, 1965: Tafel 46; Koch<br />

<strong>and</strong> Sichtermann 1982: 504- 507; Koch, 2001: 170). The first type is with a<br />

straight architrave, <strong>and</strong> the second one is “arcaded” with continuous arches.<br />

These two types appear around AD 150 <strong>and</strong> are stylistically connected to the<br />

“<strong>To</strong>rre Nova” group (Koch, 2001: 170). One example of the first type is Antalya<br />

M, or the “Herakles Sarcophagus” in Antalya Museum, depicting the labours of<br />

Hercules (Fig. 6). For the second type, Rome K (Palazzo <strong>To</strong>rlonia) is a typical<br />

example, representing the same theme (Fig. 7).<br />

The third type is carved with a lunette-gabled-lunette pediment sequence.<br />

The architrave here is continuous. The fourth <strong>and</strong> final type is the “st<strong>and</strong>ard type”<br />

(Walker, 1990: 51), also known as the “geläufiger typ” (Wiegartz, 1965: 11, 34-<br />

48), the “normaltypus” (Koch <strong>and</strong> Sichtermann, 1982: 505), <strong>and</strong> “the principal<br />

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