Smyrne (2009)
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D’Izmir à Smyrne. Découverte d’une cité antique, Violaine Bouvet-Lanselle, Christine Fuzeau, Virginie Fabre, Ariane Gueroult, Nicolas Neumann (eds), Kenan Eren, Ozalp Gobelin (trs) (Musée du Louvre, Somogy Éditions d’ Art, Paris 2009)
The catalogue accompanied the special exhibition at the Louvre in Paris entitled D’Izmir à Smyrne. Découverte d’une cité antique (From Izmir to Smyrna : discovery of an ancient city), 11 October 2009 – 18 January 2010. Both the exhibition and catalogue received financial support from the Izmir Chamber of Commerce.
The catalogue contains articles about the city’s antiquities by museologists and scholars from both Turkish and French universities : “The collection of Hellenistic and Roman antiquities in the museums of Izmir”, “From Archaic Smyrna to Hellenistic and Roman Smyrna”, “Monuments and sculpture in Smyrna from the Hellenistic and Roman periods” “The Roman agora”. In addition to the essays, the catalogue presents objects in the exhibition with detailed descriptions and rich illustrations. This is followed by a chronological table which records the most important events in the history of Smyrna, as well as writings about Smyrna by ancient writers (Herodotus, Strabo, Pausanias, Tacitus and many others). The catalogue is accompanied by a glossary (Greek terms as well as explanations of construction techniques), and a map of the eastern Mediterranean with the Greek cities of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. There is also a table with the chemical analysis of the objects in the exhibition, and an detailed bibliography, pp 223-229. Index, pp 230-231. Total pages, 236.