Convoy commanders and other military identities in tomb art of Western Anatolia around the time of the Persian Wars

Journal article

This paper considers the emergence of various military guises in the tomb art of Western Anatolia as responses to the Persian Wars. It includes the convoy in the Tatarli Tomb, taken by others to be a funerary procession, as well other images of battle and warriors. The guises selected offer some insight into the cultural identities of the different communities of Western Anatolia during what is argued to be a formative period for politics, group identities and art.

Authors: Draycott, C

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Ministero per I Beni e le Attivita Culturalia
• Journal: Bolletino di Archeologia online
• Volume: 0
• Issue: (special inaugural edition)
• Publication date: 2010-12-01
• Edition: Author's Original
• EISSN: 2039-0076
• Language: English
• Keywords: funerary art; Greco-Persian; Phrygian Highlands; Arslan Tas; helmets; Persian War; drepana; funerary processions; ekphora; shields; Achaemenid Empire; tomb paintings; Herodotus; Yilan Tas; armor; Perso-Anatolian art; convoys; sickles; chariots; Scythians; panoply; burial; Karaburun; harmamaxai; Xanthos; sepulchral; Kelainai; drepanon; relief sculpture; Achaemenid army; Milyad; Harpy Monument; Tatarli; contingents
• Subjects: Fine art; Painting & paintings; Visual art and representation; Graphic arts; History of War; History of art and visual culture; Art; History of the ancient world; Materials studies (archaeology); Plastic arts; Greek archeology; Archaeology