Tumuli were the most widespread form of monumental tombs in the ancient world. Their impact on landscape, their allurement as well as their symbolic reference to a glorious past can still be felt today. The need of supraregional and crossdisciplinary examination of this unique phenomenon led to an international conference in Istanbul in 2009. With almost 50 scholars from twelve different countries participating, the conference entitled TumulIstanbul created links between fields of research which would not have had the opportunity to meet otherwise.
The proceedings of TumulIstanbul revolve around the question of the symbolic significance of burial mounds in the 1st millennium BC in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black-Sea regions, providing further insight into Kurgan neighbours from Eurasia.
| 1–8 | Susan Alcock, "Time Traveling Tumuli. The many lives of bumps on the ground. A general introduction", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 1–8 |
| 9–32 | Alessandro Naso, "Tumuli in the Western Mediterranean, 800–500 BC. A review before the Istanbul Conference", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 9–32 |
| 35–42 | Natascha Kreutz, "Two Tumuli for Battus in the Agora of Cyrene", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 35–42 |
| 43–53 | Anne Marie Carstens, "Tumuli as Power Political Statements. On Tumuli in Cyprus in an East Mediterranean and Anatolian Context", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 43–53 |
| 57–74 | Maria Grazia Amore, "The complex of Tumuli 9, 10 and 11 in the necropolis of Apollonia (Albania). A time span from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Helenistic Period", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 57–74 |
| 75–87 | Lorenc Bejko, "Social Landscape and Tumuli Burials in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Southeastern Albania", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 75–87 |
| 89–99 | Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe, "Defining Landscape. The Prehistoric Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 89–99 |
| 101–142 | Barbara Schmidt-Dounas, "Macedonian Grave Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 101–142 |
| 143–161 | Athanasia Kyriakou, "The History of a Fourth Century BC Tumulus at Vergina. Definitions in Space and Time", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 143–161 |
| 163–179 | Elizabeth McGowan, "Tumulus and Memory. The Tumulus as a Locus for Ritual Action in the Greek Imagination", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 163–179 |
| 181–204 | Maria Stamatopoulou, "Forging a Link with the Past. The Evidence from Thessalian Cemeteries in the Archaic and Classical Periods", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 181–204 |
| 205–217 | Annie Schnapp-Gourbeillon, "Tumuli, Sema and Greek Oral Tradition", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 205–217 |
| 221–231 | Inci Delemen, "Tumuli in Southeastern Thrace: On the Periphery?", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 221–231 |
| 233–242 | Daniela Agre, "On the Untraditional Use of Mounds in Thrace during the Late Iron Age", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 233–242 |
| 243–259 | Maria Chichikova, "The Hellenistic Necropolis of the Getic Capital at Sboryanovo (Northeastern Bulgaria)", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 243–259 |
| 261–268 | Dejan Dichev, "The Commemorate Ritualism at Thracian Dolmens", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 261–268 |
| 269–280 | Rumyana Georgieva, "Riders' Burials in Thrace", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 269–280 |
| 281–312 | Kostadin Rabadjiev, "The Thracian Tomb as Ritual Space of the Beyond", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 281–312 |
| 313–338 | Totko Stoyanov and Daniela Stoyanova, "Early Tombs of Thrace. Questions of Chronology and Cultural Context", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 313–338 |
| 339–358 | Milena Tonkova, "A Fifth Century BC Tumulus with a Wooden Sarcophagus of the Upper Mesta Valley", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 339–358 |
| 359–370 | Sahin Yildirim, "The Emergence and the Development of Tumuli in Eastern Thrace", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 359–370 |
| 373–386 | C. Brian Rose and Reyhan Körpe, "The Tumuli of Troy and the Troad", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 373–386 |
| 387–406 | Nicola Zwingmann, "Tumuli as Points of Interest in Greek and Latin Sources", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 387–406 |
| 407–428 | Christina Luke and Christopher H. Roosevelt, "Memory and Meaning in Bin Tepe, the Lydian Cemetery of the 'Thousand Mounds'", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 407–428 |
| 429–444 | Olivier Henry, "Marking Karian Soil. Lydian Tumuli in Karia, Sixth to Fourth Century BC", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 429–444 |
| 445–454 | Orhan Bingöl, "A 'Door' between Two Worlds. A Reflection in Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 445–454 |
| 455–474 | Adnan Diler, "Stone Tumuli in Pedasa on the Lelegian Peninsula. Problems of Terminology and Origin", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 455–474 |
| 475–490 | Oliver Hülden, "Tumuli in Lykien. Ein Überblick über den Forschungsstand", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 475–490 |
| 491–500 | Bilge Hürmüzlü, "Display of Power. The Mortuary Landscape of Pisidian Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 491–500 |
| 501–512 | Latife Summerer and Alexander von Kienlin, "Roofing the Dead. Architectural Allusions in Anatolian Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 501–512 |
| 513–588 | Donatella Ronchetta, "The Significance of the Tumulus Burial among the Funeral Buildings of Hierapolis of Phrygia", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 513–588 |
| 589–600 | Guiseppe Scardozzi, "Tumuli in the Ancient Territory of Hierapolis and Phrygia", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 589–600 |
| 601–612 | Ute Kelp, "Some Remarks on Tumuli of Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Times in Phrygia and the Development of Provincial Art", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 601–612 |
| 613–626 | Taciser Tüfekci Sivas and Hakan Sivas, "Tumulus Tombs in Western Phrygia", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 613–626 |
| 627–636 | Ben Marsh, Richard F. Liebhart, Gareth Darbyshire and Evin Erder, "A Fresh Look at the Tumuli of Gordion", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 627–636 |
| 637–648 | Maya Vassileva, "'Royal' Tombs in Balkan-Anatolian Context. Representations of Status in Phrygian Tumuli", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 637–648 |
| 649–656 | Nicole Thierry, "Le Tumulus d'Avanos et la ville sainte du grand Zeus Ouranos", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 649–656 |
| 657–665 | Owen Doonan, "Tumuli and the Expression of a Colonial 'Middle Ground' in the Hinterland Landscape of Greek Sinope", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 657–665 |
| 669–675 | Marina Daragan, "The Use of GIS Technologies in Studying the Spatial and Time Concentration of Tumuli in the Scythain-time Lower Dnieper region", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 669–675 |
| 677–702 | Leon van Hoof and Marlen Schlöffel, "Kurgans in the northeastern Azov Sea region. Proposals for a Geo-archaeological Research Program", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 677–702 |
| 705–717 | Anton Gass, "Archäologische und geoarchäologische Untersuchungen im Siebenstromland", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 705–717 |
| 719–731 | W. Gheyle, A. de Wulf, E.P. Dvornikov, A.V. Ebel, R. Goosens and Jean Bourgeois, "Early Iron Age Burial Mounds in the Altay Mountains. From Survey to Analysis", in: Ute Kelp and Olivier Henry (Eds.), Tumulus as Sema. Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millenium BC , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016, 719–731 |
