Turkey: Bridge to the West

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Sabbatical Notes: Turkey,

Bridge to the West

Beth Camp

Linn-Benton Community College

Sabbatical, March 2004

[email protected]


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Preview:

Prehistoric Turkey

Greek and Roman Empire (Sidon,

Ephesus, Pergama) Christian Empire (Constantinople 3rd

Century to 14th Century)

Ottoman Empire (Istanbul) 1200-1922


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Source: Lonely Planet


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Preview:

Prehistoric Turkey

Greek Empire (Sidon, Ephesus,

Pergama) Roman Empire

Christian Empire (Constantinople 3rdCentury to 14th Century)

Ottoman Empire (Istanbul)


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Neolithic: Hacilar


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Catal Hoyuk

NeolithicEnthronedgoddess.

Baked clay Found in grain

bin of shrine

Leopard

throne Giving birth to

male child


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Prehistoric Turkey


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Kybele

Prehistory mothergoddess of fertilityand abundance

Hittites as Heptat

and sun goddess Lydians and

Phrygians asKybele

Links to Egyptian

goddess Ishtar(goddess of life)and Greek goddessArtemis


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Neolithic period

CatalcaHoyuk

Burials underhouses

Mothergoddess,

bulls, stagsacred


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Sun Disks

Early BronzeAge, adornedwith sacred

bulls andstags. Mayrepresent the

sun


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Preview:

Prehistoric Turkey

Greek and Roman Empire (Sidon,

Ephesus, Pergama) Roman Empire




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Pammukale, once Hierapolis, was founded190 BCE, a healing center until 1334 whenearthquakes caused people to move away


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Heriapolis


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Temple of Apollo


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Hierapolis: Roman theater


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Hierapolis: Roman Theater


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Roman Theater

Foundationof stageshowingRoman arch

Next slide:detail of

Proscenium


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Hierapolis

Roman road tothe Agora(marketplace)


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Hierapolis

FrontiusStreet or MainStreet, 1stCenturyunderEmperor

Domitian


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Hierapolis: Byzantine Gate, 4th C., Theodosian Era


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Dionysius and Pan, 2nd Century


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Capital with Sphinx, 2nd Century


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Hierapolis

People stillbathe in sacredpool of hot

springs complete withsubmergedRoman columns


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Back to Istanbul


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Istanbul

Hippodromewith obeliskfromThutmosisIII


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Roman Istanbul

6th Century Cistern,Emperor Justinian


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Preview:

Prehistoric Turkey

Greek and Roman Empire (Sidon,Ephesus, Pergama)

Christian Empire (Constantinople3rd Century to 14th Century)



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Hagia SophiaHoly Wisdom, Santa Sophia

Built 532-537 for Justinian


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Hagia Sophia

105 foot domeabout 184 feetup

200,000 sq. ftof paintedmosaicsdestroyed byCrusaders 1204

or painted overby Ottomans1453


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Blue Mosque: Sultana Mhet

Commissioned bySultan Ahmet inearly 1600s

Classic Ottomandesign

20,000 Iznik tiles

250 windows

6 minarets


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Preview:

Prehistoric Turkey

Greek and Roman Empire (Sidon,Ephesus, Pergama)

Christian Empire (Constantinople3rd Century to 14th Century)

Ottoman Empire (Istanbul) 1300-1922


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Source: Lonely Planet


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Mountains near Goreme


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Goreme


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Derinkuyu

Undergroundcity atDerinkuyu c.

280 feet deep Cruciform

church atlowest level

Can visitabout 10%


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Ilhara Valley


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Hiking along Ilhara Valley


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Selime Monastery


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Selime Monastery


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Selime Monastary


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Selime Church

Oldest rockcut churcheshave

frescoespainteddirectly on

the rock


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Goreme Open Air Museum


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Dark Church

Decoration typicalof iconoclasticperiod (725-842)

when images ofpeople or animalswere prohibited

Note Maltese Crosson nave above

courtyard (nextslide)


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Dark Church courtyard view


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Apple Church

Entryway

Frescoesinside churchpainted onplasterundercoating


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Goreme: Apple Church Frescoes


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Preview:

Prehistoric Turkey

Greek Empire (Sidon, Ephesus,Pergama)

Roman Empire


Ottoman Empire (Istanbul)Topkapi Palace, Whirling Dervish)


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Entering Topkapi Palace


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Back to Istanbul

T ki h C ft P tt


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Turkish Crafts: Pottery

T ki h C ft C t


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Turkish Crafts: Carpets


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Seljuk Carpets

Extraordinarysize

Made formosque 1221

Note kuficinterlacing andtulip motif


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Turkish Carpets

Carpets oflegend tracedto 3,000 BCE

Life stories

Holynarratives

Flower codes


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Konya Style

Prayer rug,12thCentury


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Holbein Carpets

Hans Holbein1497-1543

Note design oflarge octagons

down centralaxis, largescale, andknottedborders with

stylized kuficcalligraphy

Turkish Arts Museum, Istanbul


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Hans Holbein the Younger (1478-1543)

Portrait of GeorgGisze 1532

Konya carpet

Holbein the Younger


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g(1478-1543)

The Madonnawith Basel MayorJakob Meyer and

His Family(detail), 1525.

Konya carpet

Source: Portland ArtMuseum, Hesse Exhibit


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Hans Holbein the Younger (1478-1543)

The Ambassadors1532


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Lotto Carpets

Lorenzo Lotto1480-1556 Italy

Note repeatingoctagons, and fulland half palmetteslinked by tendrils.Earlier carpetshave kufic

interlacing; lateruse Chinese cloudsor scrollwork.

h l h


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Whirling Dervish

Mystical poetry,music and dance

Mevlana Rumi,

Sufi poet c. 1200-1275

His son foundedthe Mevlevi order

(meditativeturning)


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Beth CampPictures and Notes taken in Turkey, 2004


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