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| dc.contributor.author | Aphrodisias Regional Survey | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-24T18:51:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-08-24T18:51:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-06-01 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Page reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 362, 377; 362 - Book catalogue no.: --; Inscriptions cat. 16. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92840> | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | D118b | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92840 | |
| dc.description | Local Name: Aphrodisias, Northeast Necropolis | en_US |
| dc.description | Local Information: Old Geyre Cemetery in use at least up to 2003 | en_US |
| dc.description | Latitude: 37.42.41.6 | en_US |
| dc.description | Longitude: 28.43.50.2 | en_US |
| dc.description | Elevation: 532m | en_US |
| dc.description | Description: Two independent simple vaulted tombs (a: "Bishop's Tomb", b: "trapezoidal tomb"). Both well preserved; both entirely cleared by Museum. The tombs open onto a shared quadrilateral forecourt (approximately 1.70 m n-s by up to 1.55 m e-w). They have no walls in common. The western (118a) should predate the eastern (118b) since the west wall of the latter blocks the end of the inscription on the lintel of the former; they may be roughly contemporary, however. The full thickness of two walls of Tomb 118a is known; the southern is 0.64 m thick, and the western is 0.72 m thick. No superstructure of either tomb is visible. At D118b, the tomb chamber is an irregular quadrilateral (north wall: 2.65 m, east wall: 2.70 m, west wall: 2.40 m, south wall: 0.85 m), and the ceiling vault narrows as it descends toward the entrance, ending in a roughly constructed semi-dome on pendentives. The entrance is in the south wall; both the threshold and lintel are preserved in situ, and the pivots (diam: 0.07 m) on the eastern side indicate that the doorway (H: 1.16, W: 0.60 m) opened inward to the right. A window (W: 0.30 m) directly above the lintel pierced the south wall. The threshold is 2.30 m below the vault. ** The walls are built of petit appareil masonry (H: 0.15-0.39 m, L: 0.30-0.55 m), with seven courses on each side; the thick mortar beds are scored and significantly overlap the edges of the stones. The lower parts of the vault are built of unworked smaller stones; on the eastern side, the mortar beds are scored in the same way as the walls. The scoring also continues in the area of the sub-floor burials. The uppermost part of the vault is heavily mortared and may be a poured vault rather than a built one. A large arched niche (H: 1.42 m, W: 1.73 m, D: 0.70 m) fills the north wall, with the extrados of the arch (W: 0.07-0.12m) reaching the intrados of the vault. The upper eastern area of the back wall of the niche projects forward, perhaps to accommodate the wall of a neighboring tomb. Four cists fill the area of the floor and even extend beyond the confines of the tomb. Three are arranged E-W, parallel to the north wall, and extend 0.45-0.60 m beyond the eastern wall; the fourth is arranged N-S in the northwestern corner, parallel to the western wall, and extends 0.50 m under the northern wall. The dividing walls are 0.26 to 0.33 m thick and are preserved to the same height, to 2.80 m below the vault. Each cist is about 0.60-0.70m wide and 0.90 m deep, and between 1.60 m and 2.03 m long. Thin stone shelves (H: 0.07 to 0.09 m, D: 0.09 to 0.10 m) project from the northern, western, and southern walls to support the coverslabs. A similar shelf projects from the back wall of the arched niche, suggesting that it also housed a burial (L: 1.73, W: about 0.50, D: 0.55 m). There is enough space for a second layer of cists, as in tombs D118a and D119, but nothing is in place to support the coverslabs. A the height of a second layer would just reach the floor level of the niche, but would be about 0.50m higher than the threshold. | en_US |
| dc.relation | D117, D119, D120, D122, D124, D125, D126, D133 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tombs | en_US |
| dc.subject | Inscriptions | en_US |
| dc.subject | 5: Late Roman | en_US |
| dc.title | D118b: Geyre Cemetery Tomb 2b, "Trapezoidal Tomb" | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |
| dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Archaeology | en_US |
| dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
| dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92840/1/D2007.0551.JPG | |
| dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92840/2/D2007.0556.JPG | |
| dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92840/3/D2007.0557.JPG | |
| dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92840/4/D2007.0558.JPG | |
| dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92840/5/RS47.JPG | |
| dc.owningcollname | Aphrodisias Regional Survey |
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