Papers by Gabriele Koiner
Alexander Malios Collection 1. Cypriot Antiquities. Leipzig: Alexander Malios Research Institute for Cypriot Heritage and Archaeology –AMRICHA, 2023
The volume edits 320 Cypriot objects from the Neolithic to the Roman period in the Collection of ... more The volume edits 320 Cypriot objects from the Neolithic to the Roman period in the Collection of Alexander Malios in Leipzig. The catalogue also offers an introduction to the collection (E. Poyiadji-Richter) and two essays on the provenances of the objects (A. Gatzsche) and an archaeometric contribution (I. Pamer).
Lohner-Urban, Ute; Spickermann, Wolfgang; Trinkl, Elisabeth (Hg.): Itineraria II. Rund ums Mittelmeer. Festschrift für Peter Scherrer zum 65. Geburtstag. Graz. Unipress. 271-279., 2023
Rome is visited by 7 to 10 million tourists per year, many of them interested in historical sites... more Rome is visited by 7 to 10 million tourists per year, many of them interested in historical sites. Most sites that are described in tourist guides (printed or online) are archaeological sites; we can call them visible archaeological sites. Unfortunately, even visible archaeological sites in Rome are barely marked – and invisible sites are completely ignored. In this paper, we present the ArchaeoApp Rome Edition (AARE). The novelty is not just to mark the important, visible, barely known sites, but to mark the invisible sites, consequently introducing a completely novel type of site to the tourist guidance: historical invisible sites. One challenge is to get to reliable, historic information on demand. A possible approach is to retrieve the information from Wikipedia directly. The second challenge is that most of the end users have no Webaccess due to the high roaming costs. The third challenge is to address a balance between the best platform available and the most used platform. Fo...
Gedenkschrift für Wolfgang Wohlmayr, 2020
We dedicate this contribution to Wolfgang Wohlmayr who was a great scholar and connoisseur of anc... more We dedicate this contribution to Wolfgang Wohlmayr who was a great scholar and connoisseur of ancient sculpture and art as well as a wonderful colleague.-We would like to thank Peter Knoll for the access to his Raman and laboratory that made these 2 Lehner 1997; Christidis et al. 2013. 3 Caggiani et al. 2016. Fig. 1: Raw spectra of the blue pigments on the Egyptian shabti inv. G 1199 (J. Reynvaan).
Wilhelm Fink, 2017
phi errichten mussten, gelangten im Heiligtum zur Aufstellung. 70 Dass ausgerechnet diese ›Bußbil... more phi errichten mussten, gelangten im Heiligtum zur Aufstellung. 70 Dass ausgerechnet diese ›Bußbilder‹ aus Gold oder zumindest aus vergoldeter Bronze gefertigt werden sollten, ist eine Besonderheit, die dem modernen Verständnis allen Erklärungsversuchen zum Trotz Schwierigkeiten be reitet. Mitunter konnten als Votive in Heiligtümern aufgestellte Bildnis statuen zugleich als μνήμεια für Verstorbene fungieren, wie dies im Falle des kinderlos verstorbenen Arimnestos im Testament des Aristoteles eigens hervorgehoben wird. 71 Ohne erläuternde Inschrift sind allerdings gerade die frühen Bildnis weihungen in den Heiligtümern nur selten als solche zu identifizieren. Es gibt jedoch eindeutige Hinweise, dass bereits im 7. und 6. Jahrhundert einzelne der monumentalen Koren und Kuroi als Abbilder realer Per sonen fungierten. 72 Dies könnte sogar auf die älteste monumentale Marmorstatue einer Kore zutreffen, die im späten 7. Jahrhundert von einer Frau namens Nikandre der delischen Artemis geweiht wurde. Die ungewöhnlich wortreiche Inschrift, die nicht nur den Vatersnamen, sondern auch den des Bruders und des Ehegatten der Weihenden nennt, könnte darauf hinweisen, dass die Statue die Stifterin selber repräsentiert. 73 Dass eine solche Deutung auch in dieser frühen Zeit keineswegs ausgeschlossen werden kann, zeigt die enge typologische Übereinstimmung mit der kürzlich gefundenen Grabstatue auf Thera, die zweifellos die Verstorbene darstellt. 74 Auf sichererem Boden stehen wir bei den frühen Bildnisstatuen von Olympioniken. Diese sind zwar nicht erhalten, aber die Überlieferung er laubt keinen Zweifel, dass es sich um Statuen im KurosSchema handelte. Als Beispiel sei hier die Bildnisstatue des mehrfachen Olympioniken Milon aus Kroton angeführt, die ein ebenfalls aus Kroton stammender Dameas in der zweiten Hälfte des 6. Jahrhunderts geschaffen hatte. 75 Pausanias beschreibt dieses Schema sogar sehr anschaulich im Falle der
Christian Bachhiesl, Markus Handy, Stefan Köchel, Ursula Lagger, Peter Mauritsch (Hrsg.), Freiheit und Wissenschaft. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven mit einem altertumswissenschaftlichen Schwerpunkt. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft. 244–278, 2022
G. Bourogiannis (Hrsg.), Beyond Cyprus: Investigating Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period, Supplement Athens University Review of Archaeology (AURA) 9 , 2022
Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas, 2019
Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes, 2012
Austria's ten collections of Cypriore aniquities are few, but they hold important pieces such as ... more Austria's ten collections of Cypriore aniquities are few, but they hold important pieces such as the Amazon sarcophagus 1 from Soli and the Artemis from Larnaca 2 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. 3 Most of the collections are located in eastern Austria, like the collection of the University of Vienna and the Sigmund-Freud Museum in Vienna, the ethnographic collection in Kittsee castle in Burgenland and the small collections in Baden and Horn in Niederösterreich. Southern Austria has three collections. These are the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria's second largest collection, the collection of the University of Graz, both in Styria, and the collection in the Landesmuseum Klagenfurt in Carinthia. Western Austria has to offer but one collection, only the Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Tirol, holds Cypriote objects. There is ccec 42, 2012 no information on collections in the states of Upper Austria, Salzburg and Vorarlberg. In contrast, research on Cypriote archaeology is established in the east and west, at the Universities of Vienna, Graz, Salzburg and Innsbruck as well as at the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. This presentation of collections and research shall proceed from east to west. Collections and research in Vienna Vienna's and Austria's largest collection of Cypriote antiquities is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which holds ca. 700 objects formerly in imperial or private possession. The Amazon sarcophagus from Soli was acquired by the Habsburg family already in the 17 th century. 4 However, an important part, that is 155 objects, was acquired from the Cesnola collection in 1870s through the assistance of Karl Friederichs. 5 The largest part, i.e. 176 pieces, came to the collection through several acquisitions from Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, among them the Artemis of Larnaca in 1884. 6 In the 19 th century, travellers brought objects from Cyprus and sometimes bequeathed these to the imperial collections, such as Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), visiting Cyprus in 1800 and bringing with him half of a statue base of Ptolemy VI and of his son Ptolemy Eupator. 7 To one of these travellers, Georg von Millosicz, 8 the museum owes the large statue from Pyla. A selection of masterpieces was published, at the reopening of the Cypriote gallery, by Alfred Bernhard-Walcher, Kurt Gschwantler, Günther Dembski and Vassos Karageorghis in cooperation with the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation in 1999. 9 The Bronze Age ceramics have been published by Alfred Bernhard-Walcher, 10 and the catalogue of the Iron Age ceramics has been prepared by Claudia Lang-Auinger. 11
The investigations of the city Tavium and its surroundings in the northwest of the Province of Yo... more The investigations of the city Tavium and its surroundings in the northwest of the Province of Yozgat (begun in 1997) continued in 2003 through 2005. The findings on the road net and on the inscriptions presented here include the results of the 2006 campaign as well. Fieldwork in the 2003-2005 seasons concentrated on the archaeological and epigraphic exploration of the region. The archaeological documentation is complete enough to present a preliminary oversight of the history of the settlement and the infrastructure of the region. Within the city further geophysical soundings were made, and documentation of the topography continued. Documentation of the architecture members found in the city and surroundings - including that of reused elements - has been completed, as has the study of the building materials undertaken as a project of the Universitat Graz. The documentation of the epigraphic evidence had nearly reached conclusion by the end of 2006, and the final preparation for the...
Koiner, Gabriele; Lehner, Manfred; Trinkl, Elisabeth (Hg.): Akten des 18. Österreichischen Archäologietages am Institut für Antike der Universität Graz, 2022
Koiner, Gabriele; Ambros, Gabriele; Christof, Eva; Lohner-Urban, Ute; Puhm, Alexandra; Sturmann, ... more Koiner, Gabriele; Ambros, Gabriele; Christof, Eva; Lohner-Urban, Ute; Puhm, Alexandra; Sturmann, Sabine; Morawetz, Rainer; Milchrahm, Andreas
Greek Art in Motion: Studies in honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th Birthday, 2019
Istanbuler Mitteilungen, 2010
This paper presents and discusses several recently documented ancient architectural pieces from T... more This paper presents and discusses several recently documented ancient architectural pieces from Tavium and its surroundings (Turkey, province of Yozgat, Buyuknefes). The first part deals with three blocks of a limestone tendril frieze which originally were part of a monumental building. Although the tendril frieze shows early Imperial elements, the technical analysis dates the frieze to the late 1 st or to the beginning of the 2 nd cent. A. D. The second part of this contribute presents some early and mid-Byzantine liturgical furniture which originally decorated the churches of Tavium and its surroundings. The objects can be identified as chancel barriers, and chancel posts, a basin support, a miniature capital belonging to the column of an altar, the arch of a ciborium and a middle Byzantine ambo fragment with the depiction of a peacock drinking water from a fountain. The objects are either made of white marble or of reddish conglomerate. Even in their often fragmentary condition, ...
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2015
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Series: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Archäologie der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 13 (Wien 2016)
ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΠΕΔΙΟΥ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΜΑΡΓΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΑΡΧΙΑΣ ΠΑΦΟΥ, ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΓΚΡΑΤΣ
Τμήμα Αρχαιοτήτων, Υπουργείο Μεταφορών Επικοινωνιών και Έργων,
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The Action falls under the Fourth Strategic Objective of the Operational Programme (OP) 'Education and Lifelong Learning’ (EdLL), entitled 'Supporting the Human Capital in order to Promote Research and Innovation' of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2007-2013 which is co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and National Resources.
The website, entitled: Kyprios Character. History, Archaeology & Numismatics of Ancient Cyprus is currently under construction but you can leave your email and receive information as soon as it goes live.
The website will include by July 2015 a complete numismatic bibliography, a numismatic database including at least 1.500 Cypriot coins that were given permissions for online publication, together with more than 50 scientific essays on the history and archaeology of ancient Cyprus, written by external scientific collaborators from around the world.
The website will finally propose news, a calendar of events and links related to the history, archaeology and numismatics of ancient Cyprus.
Some interesting traits connect “political” works of Stagiritus with Cyprus: his friendship with Eudemus the Cypriot, the devotion of Protrepticos to Cypriot ruler Themison, Clearchus from Soloi as Aristotle's student in the Lyceum and Theophrastus, who also turned his attention to the phenomenon of royal power in Cyprus – not to mention Isocrates' Orationes and other facts of the late 5th – 4th centuries B. C. , which made the island closer to a number of Athenian intellectuals and politicians of than time.
Both works of Aristotle devoted to megalonesoi (Crete and Cyprus) were named in quite a similar manner, i.e. Ton Cyprion politeia and Ton Creton politeia – that means that without going deep in the details and peculiarities connected with each individual polity, the author deals with common features of all the polities in these islands (seen from aside Cypriot polities looked much similar to each other, as like as Cretan ones did).
It is possible to suppose that it was namely the unique institute of royal power which attracted Aristotle's attention in Cyprus, so some general thoughts made in his Politics could be deduced by taking into account Cypriot political reality – and it is probably the passage where the Stagirite defines several types of royal power (Arist. Polit. ΙΙΙ. 12-14, 1285 b). When the philosopher deals with the royal power of the heroic times, it fits well to Cypriot realia known both from archaeological evidences and written tradition: military function of Cypriot kings as war-leaders, their close connection with cult (as king-priests in Paphos or elsewhere), scepters as signs of power, and especially important role as patrons of crafts (first of all mining bronze-production and metallworking).
Im Rahmen des Projekts sollen Fragen zur Typologie, zur bisher fehlenden Feindatierung und zur Aufstellung der Skulpturen erörtert werden. Die Objekte werden fotografisch und mittels 3D-Scanner dokumentiert. Marmoranalysen (Montanuniversität Leoben) sowie Farb- und Pigmentanalysen (Cyprus Institute) sollen die Herkunft von Marmorskulpturen und die farbige Fassung der Objekte klären.
An over-lifesize female head in the collections of the Universalmuseum Joanneum at Graz displays a characteristic mural crown. Its high kalathos is undecorated, structured only by two taeniae in the middle and at the upper end and a crenelation on top. This mural crown is unparalleled so far but was maybe modelled on floral kalathoi (e. g. the kalathoi on female figurines from the sanctuary of Salines, Kition). The objective of this paper was to show the connection to coins of king Melekiaton of Kition (392–361 BCE) respectively very similars coins of Palaipafos (ca. 360 BCE) and to trace the mural crown and city-representations in the Near East (Assyria, Persia, reliefs, seals, coins, textiles) and its impact on Cyprus and Greece as well as to consider the way it came to Greece and Cyprus (Persian darics and sigloi?, seals, ceramics, textiles, pattern books?) and to ask for the idea behind it: tyche basileios/khvarnah of the Great King, protection of the king, his family and his city/kingdom; to point to the construction of a fortification (as in Salamis and in Palaipafos), maybe also to demonstrate power over the city-kingdoms territory, warn the neighbour and to clearly mark the border: almost all sculptures with mural crowns are to be found in extra-urban sanctuaries.
The Tomb of the Roaring Lions at Veii feature the earliest monumental paintings in Etruria depicting lions and birds. The paintings are dated to the years after 700 BCE and were based on Late Geometric Greek models.
by Katharina Pyschny and Sarah Hollaender
8-11 December 2020
Organizing Committee
Athos Agapiou, Cyprus University of Technology
Markos Katsianis, University of Patras
George Pavlidis, Athena-Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies
Dorina Moullou, Ephorate of Antiquities of East Attica / Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Tuna Kalayci, Leiden University
Stella Sylaiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Auf der Agora der pamphylischen Stadt Side befindet sich ein zwölfsäuliger, auf einem Podium stehender römischer Rundtempel korinthischer Ordnung, dessen architektonische Bauglieder teilweise verschleppt und in die Philippus-Attius-Mauer verbaut worden waren, dessen sichtbare Überreste vor Ort aber bereits 1811 beschrieben und in den späten 1940er Jahren von Arif Müfid Mansel erstmalig dokumentiert wurden. Neue Forschungen am Tempel und eine teilweise Anastylose desselben wurden unter der Ägide von Hüseyin Sabri Alanyalı & Feriştah Soykal-Alanyalı, Anadolu Üniversitesi Eskişehir, in den Jahren 2010-2013 durchgeführt. Das Institut für Archäologie (jetzt: Institut für Antike; Leitung: Peter Scherrer) der Universität Graz wurde mit der Bearbeitung der Bauornamentik des Tempels im Jahr 2012 beauftragt (Gabriele Koiner, Alexandra Puhm).
Da epigraphische Dokumente zur Gründung des Baus fehlen, kann die Analyse der Bauornamentik entscheidend zur Datierung des Tempels beitragen. Die ornamentierten Teile, etwa die Normal- und Pilasterkapitelle, der Ranken- und der Girlandenfries, die Geisa, Simen und die Kassetten des Umgangs zeigen Ähnlichkeiten mit der Ornamentik von Bauten in Side, Perge, Antalya/Attaleia oder Milet und datieren die Ornamentik wahrscheinlich in späthadrianische Zeit.
Die Ansprache als Tempel der Tyche beruht auf der Annahme Mansels, dass das Bild einer sitzenden Tyche von Antiochia in einem tetrastylen Rundbau auf Prägungen der Salonina Augusta (254-268) den auf der Agora befindlichen Rundtempel meint. Tyche ist im Skulpturenprogramm des Theaters gut belegt, und Reste eines Hochreliefs der Tyche im Typus Antiochia mit dem schwimmenden Melas konnten auf der Agora von Hüseyin Alanyalı identifiziert und wahrscheinlich als Kultstatue des Tempels angesprochen werden.
Francis Beaufort (1811) und Eugen Petersen (1870er Jahre) sahen noch Teile einer heute nicht mehr vorhandenen Kuppel, die ursprünglich Reliefs der zwölf Tierkreiszeichen trug, die auf die Eigenschaft der Tyche als Lenkerin der Gestirne und damit des Geschickes von Menschen und Städten anspielten.
Der Typus des Rundbaus begegnet in Kleinasien häufig für Brunnenbauten auf Lebensmittelmärkten (Macella), etwa in Aizanoi, Ephesos, Perge, Sagalassos, meist aber in der Mitte des Platzes. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es keinen festen Bautyp für Tycheia: Diese konnten rechteckig, mit oder ohne Apsis bzw. auch ohne jegliche Architektur (Alexandria) auskommen. Der Rundbau in Side ist leicht exzentrisch (die Hallen der Agora wurden später gebaut), eine Erklärung dafür erschließt sich nicht auf den ersten Blick, könnte aber mit der Führung einer Straßentrasse zusammenhängen. Die Tholos sitzt vielleicht auf einem älteren Bau, der aber aufgrund seiner Lage außerhalb der hellenistischen Stadtmauer wohl kaum die hellenistische Stadtgöttin beherbergt haben kann. Eine endgültige Deutung des hadrianischen Rundbaus steht noch aus und wird vielleicht durch eine Zusammenschau der Ergebnisse von Grabung (lassen sich hydrotechnische Installationen nachweisen?), architektonischer und kunsthistorischer Analyse möglich sein.
22. JUNI 2018
The deadline for submitting proposals and abstracts is 30th April 2017.
Homepage: http://classicalcyprus.uni-graz.at
Email: classicalcyprus@uni-graz.at
Conference Committee:
Maria Christidis
Antoine Hermary
Gabriele Koiner
Fritz Mitthof
Anja Ulbrich
Transmediterrane Verflechtungen - Bewegungen und Beziehungen im Mittelmeer und darüber hinaus. Schwerpunktbereich der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
7.-8. November 2024
University of Graz