Glass Finds of Musaca Necropolis Excavation
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2023
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Selcuk Univ, Fac Letters
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Özet
While skeletons of 47 adult individuals have been detected in 34 graves in rescue excavations by the Manisa Museum Directorate in the necropolis area detected during the road works, in the road route and impact area of the Gurduk Dam located on 103 blocks, 1-2 parcels in Manisa province Akhisar district Musaca neighborhood, no infant/child graves have been discovered in the area. The absence of infant and child graves has been evaluated together with the presence of only children's graves in the Thyateira excavations, and this is explained by the fact that the child graves here is probably in another area. There has been no finding about the ancient settlement name of Musaca neighborhood. Since the agricultural settlements within the hinterland of Polis were called Comet in ancient times, when evaluated together with the ancient city of Thyateira Akhisar, 15 km south-west of the necropolis, it is understood that the possible settlement is a comet of the ancient city of Thyateira. Despite the fact that the graves in the necropolis had been evaluated under two groups as simple earth graves and cist graves, it was understood that the stone covers of the graves were identical. The glass finds discovered in the graves has been evaluated in two groups as unguentarium and bottle, and the finds were associated with libation in the burial ritual. Glass finds recovered from the graves are generally dated to 2-3 centuries AD, and it is possible to give this date range for the usage periods of the Musaca Necropolis. While it is seen that the glass forms recovered are compatible with the general glass typology of Anatolia, it is understood that the candelabra-shaped unguentariums demonstrate local characteristics. The fact that the identical glass artifacts found in graves in a rural settlement have been detected in collections such as Bergama and Tire is an important piece of data indicating that these forms were widely used in Western Anatolia. Although it is not possible to make a definite judgment about the economic situation of the people living in rural areas as the settlement of the necropolis could not be identified, the high number of samples without grave gifts and the low number of gifts in the grave samples with gifts indicate that the economic level is not very good.
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Thyateira, cist grave, libation, glass, unguentarium
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Selcuk Universitesi Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi-Selcuk University Journal of Faculty of Letters
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