Post-doctoral Research Fellowships in Turkey

FAIN: RA-20092-91

American Research Institute in Turkey, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324)
G. Kenneth Sams (Project Director: August 1993 to April 1996)

Funding details:
Original grant (1991) $2,650.00
Supplement (1992) $45,000.00
Supplement (1996) $99,149.45

To support one yearlong fellowship and one six-month fellowship in the humanities at the American Research Institute in Turkey.

Associated Products

Lydian Architecture: Ashlar Masonry Structures at Sardis (Book)
Title: Lydian Architecture: Ashlar Masonry Structures at Sardis
Author: with a contribution by Michael H. Ramage and Robert H. Tykot
Author: Christopher Ratte
Abstract: From the sixth to the fourth century B.C., the western Anatolian region of Lydia was home to a distinctive local tradition of ashlar masonry construction. The earliest datable example of fine stone masonry in the environs of Sardis, the capital of the Lydian empire, is the tomb of King Alyattes, who died in ca. 560 B.C. Contemporary monuments include a city gate and monumental terraces. Alyattes’ son Croesus was overthrown by the Persians in 547 B.C., but the Lydian building tradition survived in chamber tombs at Sardis and throughout Lydia. This richly illustrated volume examines the monuments of Sardis and environs in the context of contemporary developments in Lydia and throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. The study of Lydian architecture illuminates traditions of Anatolian kingship, technological exchange between Lydia and Greece and the Near East, and the origins of Persian imperial architecture.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/lydian-architecture-ashlar-masonry-structures-at-sardis/oclc/676725381&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Secondary URL: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674060609
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's website entry
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9780674060609
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

The Gordion Excavations, 1950 1973. The Lesser Phryghian Tumuli, Part I: The Inhumantions, volume II. (Book)
Title: The Gordion Excavations, 1950 1973. The Lesser Phryghian Tumuli, Part I: The Inhumantions, volume II.
Author: Sams, G. Kenneth
Year: 1995
Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum
Type: Single author monograph

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