Bartın İli ve İlçeleri Yüzey Araştırması 2017-2018

37. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı, 2019

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Amastris Üzerine Yapılan Epigrafik Çalışmalar ve 2017-2019 Yılları Arasında Bartın İli Yüzey Araştırması’nda Bulunan Amastris Yazıtları, 2022

EPIGRAPHICAL RESEARCHES OF AMASTRIS AND THE INSCRIPTIONS FOUND AT BARTIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY BETWEEN 2017-2019 I. Epigraphical Researches of Amastris: The first epigraphic researches and studies on the ancient city of Amastris began with the publication of inscription records taken by important archaeologists and epigraphers such as G. Perrot, J. H. Mordtmann, G. Hirschfeld, G. Doublet, E. Kalinka and G. Mendel who visited this region in the last quarter of the 19th century. After these, the inscriptions of Amastris are seen to have been included in the works of Th. Wiegand, A. Wilhelm, L. Robert, M. T. Yaman, and G. Jacopi until 1985, when the first epigraphical corpus of Amasra Archaeological Museum including 41 inscriptions was formed by Ch. Marek as an article in the journal of Epigraphica Anatolica. Ch. Marek finally published the first epigraphical corpus of Amastris within his book named “Stadt, Ära und Territorium in Pontus-Bithynia und Nord-Galatia in 1993” under the title of Katalog der Inschriften von Amastris that contains 116 inscriptions. In addition to them, some inscriptions of the city were added to and evaluated in the thematic epigraphical catalogues of D. French, W. Ameling, W. Peek, E. Pfuhl & H. Möbius, R. Merkelbach & J. Stauber. Along with these, following the completion of these studies and publications, new inscriptions from Amasra and its territory were added to the inventory of Amasra Archaeological Museum in various ways. As part of a project to compile all published and unpublished Greek and Latin inscriptions in the Amasra Archaeological Museum into a corpus, inscriptions were copied and worked on with the permissions of the directorship of the Museum in 2009 and in 2022 by H. S. Öztürk and B. Öztürk within the scope of the epigraphic studies of Bithynia/Paphlagonia regions. The archaeological surveys we have been carrying out in and around Bartın and its surroundings since 2017 under the direction of Fatma Bağdatlı- Çam led to the discovery and recording of eight new and five published Ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions belonging to the Roman Period of Amastris. The information and Turkish translations of nine of these inscriptions, whose work has been completed, are listed below under the the titles: II.A. New Inscriptions from the Survey: A1. An Honorary inscription for a Roman officer on an architrave: "…, triumvir capitalis (one of the triumviri capitales) and tribunus militum (the military tribune) of the legio (or cohors) …" A2. An Honorary inscription on an architrave: "…of/for the sacred senatus and of the demos (people) of the Romans and of (the boule and)? the demos (people) of Amastris …" A3. Grave Inscription of Euprepes and his wife Philoumene on an ostotheke: "(I am) Euprepes, the son of Diogeneia, while alive and in my/his right mind, made/prepared the ostotheke to myself and to my wife Philoumene, the daughter of Diogeneia, who (died) at the age of 25. In the 24th (day) of the month Dystros of the year 239. Farewell!" A4. Grave Inscription of a man and his daughter on an ostotheke: "(I) ... made this grave for myself and to my daughter Diogeneia who died at the age of 32(?)…" A5. A Fragmentary Inscription: "…d... …dro…" In addition to these new inscriptions, research in the center of Amasra has allowed us to rediscover and reread two honorific inscriptions at the South Entrance Gate and an inscribed statue base on the walls of Kemere Bridge, where they were used as spolia. Besides, a pedestal with bilingual inscriptions was officially recorded for the first time with its current position in the center of Amasra. II.B. Published Inscriptions from the Survey: B6. An Honorary Inscription for a Roman Emperor on an architrave: "…to Imperator Caesar …, … Varius Ser(gia) Decius, son of Publius (dedicated?) …" B7. An Honorary Inscription for … Flavius Celsus on an architrave (Addendum): "…the fatherland (patris) Am…, …(honoured) (Titus)? Flavius Celsus… B8. The Statue Base Inscription of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius: "With good fortune!. In the year 217, under the archonship of Caecilianus Theon and his colleagues, the boule (the council) and demos (the people of Amastris) erected (the statue of) twice Imperator T(itus) Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius Augustus, from the estate/money left behind by Gaius Heliophon in accordance to his will and after it was donated to the city by his wife and (also) heiress Markiane, daughter of Markellos; so that from the revenues/income of this estate every other/through year, a statue of the emperor would be set up set up/erected." B9. The Statue Base Bilingual Inscription of T(itus) Statilius Euporos: "T(itus) Statilius Euporos"