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The Early Christian Art of Isaura Nova

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. Margaret Ramsay
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Extract

The following paper is due entirely to the suggestion, advice, and guidance of my father. But he wishes me to say that he has given me simply the same help that he has already given to many and is anxious to give to others still.

The aim of this paper is to show by examples that there is a native and indigenous art peculiar to a certain part of Asia Minor, the only part I have yet seen, namely, the district around the city of Nova Isaura. It has already been observed both by Prof. Ramsay and by others, that certain artistic forms are characteristic of certain districts of Asia Minor. In many places these forms have persisted from ancient times down almost to the present day. Thus all the carpets and embroideries woven at the village of Ladik (the ancient Laodicea Katakekaumene), nine hours north of Iconium, until the middle of last century, when the old manufacture ceased, show a vase of particular shape, while another vase of a different form is peculiar to the carpets made at Mudjur in Cappadocia.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 24 , November 1904 , pp. 260 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1904

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References

1 In a paper on Isauiau inscriptions and topography intended to be published by Prof. Ramsay along with this paper, but postponed through want of space.

2 The formula is always misspelt; but the above seems to have been the intention.

3 Only No. 59 seems to be distinetly earlier, but it belongs to an older type, the ordinary pagan heroön.

4 ‘That date may be taken as the final legal confirmation of the subjection which had long been aimed at by the bishops of Palaea Isaurn (as is clear from Basil loc. cit.); the bishops of those two places came to an end after 451, when they sent bishops to Chalcedon, but before 474.’—W.M.R.

5 Prof. Sterrett shows this space correctly in his epigraphic copy.

6 Mr. G. F. Hill points ont that it occurs on coins of Etenna as an instrument of offence.

7 Revue des Univ. du Midi, 1895, p. 357.

8 On this influence see J.H.S. 1883, p. 36.