Inscriptions in the urban space: wordscape in Magnesia ad Maeandrum

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2023-10

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Gürel, Pınar Şebnem

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Magnesia on the Maeander, the ancient city in Ionia, was first mentioned by William Martin Leake in 1824, in order to prove that well preserved inscribed pedestals on site belonged to the magnificent Temple of Artemis; and was first excavated in 1891 by the German archaeological team lead by Carl Humann, who documented much of the architectural remains still in situ today. Around 400 inscriptions are now known from the site, full of information both about the life of the city and that of the Ancient Greece and Roman Empire. Most of these inscriptions are in-situ or the findspots are recorded in the entries. Considering these inscriptions in an urban framework with their architectonic values creates the opportunity to not just study the narrative of history, or who wrote them for what reason, but to study the ways in which the Magnesians responded to inscriptions after their creation. The sheer volume of this material and the wealth of documentation allows this thesis to formulate a wordscape in the urban context of Magnesia. The aim is to visualize the ongoing interaction between imperial and individual initiative and collective memory, and thus to reflect upon the shaping of the urban memory through the inscribed texts

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Epigraphy, Inscriptions, Magnesia on the Meander, Event space, Epigraphic landscape

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105537

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis