Publications

Sculpture

  • Abbe, M. 2008. ‘Polychromy and gilding on marble statuary at Aphrodisias,’ in R.R.R. Smith, and J. Lenaghan (eds.), Aphrodisias’tan Roma portreleri (Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias), Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 136-151.
  • Attanasio, D. and Bruno, M. 2008. ‘Aphrodisias and the newly discovered quarries at Göktepe,’ in R.R.R. Smith and J. Lenaghan (eds.), Aphrodisias’tan Roma portreleri (Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias), Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 216-227.
  • Baratte, F. 2001. ‘Exotisme et décor à Aphrodisias : la statue de Jeune Noir de l’ancienne collection Gaudin,’ Monuments et mémoires. Fondation Eugène Piot 80, 57-80.
  • Berger, E. 1976. ‘La reconstruction du groupe d’Achille et Penthesilee,’ Revue archeologique (Bulletin de la S.F.A.C.), 187-189.
  • Bergmann, M. 1999. Chiragan, Aphrodisias, Konstantinopel: Zur mythologischen Skulptur der Spaetantike, Wiesbaden: Palilia 7.
  • de Chaisemartin, N. 1993. ‘Agonistic images on Aphrodisian sarcophagi,’ in C. Roueché, Performers and Partisans in Aphrodisias, London: Journal of Roman Studies Monograph 6, 239-248.
  • de Chaisemartin, N. 1995. ‘Technical Aspects of the Sculptural Decoration at Aphrodisias in Caria,’ Archéomatériaux, marbres et autres roches, Actes de la IVe Conférence internationale, ASMOSIA IV, 261-267.
  • de Chaisemartin, N. 1997. ‘Afrodisia, Roma e i Troiani,’ Archeologia Classica 49, 29-46.
  • de Chaisemartin, N. 2001a. ‘Le retour des Troyenes: l’exemple d’Aphrodisias,’ in V. Fromentin and S. Gotteland (eds.), Origines gentium, Bordeaux : Ausonius, 187-206.
  • de Chaisemartin, N. 2001b. ‘Tradition locale et intégration dans l’empire romain d’une cité carienne. La sémantique des guirlandes sur les monuments publics d’Aphrodisias,’ in M. Molin (ed.), Images et représentations du pouvoir et de l’ordre social dans l’antiquité. Actes du colloque, Angers 28 – 29 mai 1999, Paris : De Boccard, 147-158.
  • Dillon, S. 1997. ‘Figured Pilaster Capitals from Aphrodisias in Caria,’ American Journal of Archaeology 101, 731-69.
  • Erim, K. T. 1967a. ‘De Aphrodisiade’, American Journal of Archaeology 71, 233-43.
  • Erim, K.T. 1967b. ‘Two new early byzantine statues from Aphrodisias,’ Dumbarton Oaks Papers 21, 285-286.

  • Erim, K.T. 1974. ‘The Satyr and Young Dionysos Group from Aphrodisias,’ Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 767-775.

  • Filippi, F. 2004. ‘Statuetta in marmo di Afrodite di Aphrodisias ritrovata a Trastevere,’ Bollettino d’arte 128, 11-18.
  • Frei-Stolba, R. 1993. ‘Ein neues Zeugnis zum Alpenfeldzug. Die Trumplini und Raeti im Sebasteion von Aphrodisias (Karien, Türkei),’ Jahresbericht des Rätischen Museums Chur, 64-91.
  • Giuliano, A. 1960. ‘Rilievo da Aphrodisias in onore di Zoilos,’ Annuario della scuola archeologia di Atene e delle missione italiane in Oriente 37-38, 389-401.
  • Hallett, C. H. 1998. ‘A Group of Portrait Statues from the Civic Center of Aphrodisias,’ American Journal of Archaeology 102, 1998, 59-89.
  • Hallett, C. 2008. ‘Four statues from the workshop of Apollonios Aster,’ in R.R.R. Smith and J. Lenaghan (eds.), Aphrodisias’tan Roma portreleri (Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias), Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 70-85.
  • Harrison, E. B. 1981. ‘Motifs of the City-Siege on the Shield of Athena Parthenos,’ American Journal of Archaeology 85, 281-317.
  • Himmelmann, N. 1993. ‘Das Bildnis Pindars : ein überraschender Porträtfund im kleinasiatischen Aphrodisias,’ Antike Welt 24, 56-58.
  • Hrychuk Kontokosta, A. C. 2008. ‘Gladiatorial reliefs and élite funerary monuments,’ in C. Ratté, and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monuments Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 70, 190-229.
  • Işık, F. 1984. ‘Die Sarkophage von Aphrodisias,’ in B. Andreae (ed.), Symposium über die Antiken Sarkophage, Pisa 5.-12. September 1982: Marburger Winckelmann-Programm, Marburg, 243-81.
  • Işık, F. 1989. ‘Ein späthellenistisches Grabrelief aus Aphrodisias,’ Festschrift für Jale İnan, Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 429-438.
  • Işık, F. 1992. ‘Zum Produktionsbeginn von Halbfabrikaten Kleinasiatischer Girlandensarkophage,’ Archäologischer Anzeiger, 121-45.
  • Işık, F. 1998. ‘Zu Produktionsbeginn und Ende der kleinasiatischer Girlandensarkophage der Hauptgruppe,’ in G. Koch (ed.), Akten des Symposiums ‘125 jahre Sarkophag-Corpus,’ Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 278-94.
  • Işık F. 2007. Girlanden-Sarkophage aus Aphrodisias. Mainz: Sarkophag-Studien 5.
  • Ismaelli, T. 2016. ‘Una testa di atleta da Hierapolis, creazione afrodisiense in stile policleteo’, in F. D’Andria, M.P. Caggia, and T. Ismaelli, Hierapolis di Frigia. Le attività delle campagne di scavo e restauro 2007-2011, Istanbul, 609-621.
  • Klar, L. S. 2008. ‘Figural table supports: aspects of the archaeology of dining in the Roman world,’ in C. Ratté, and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monuments, Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 70, 253-283.
  • Lenaghan, J. 2007. ‘On the Use of Roman Copies: Two New Examples of the Doryphoros and Westmacott Ephebe,’ Eidola 4, 147-152.
  • Lenaghan, J. 2008. ‘A statue of Julia Hera Sebaste (Livia),’ in C. Ratté, and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monuments, Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 70, 37-50.
  • Lenaghan, J. 2016. ‘Re-use in fourth century portrait statues’ in R.R.R. Smith and B. Ward-Perkins, The Last Statues of Antiquity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 267-279.

  • Lenaghan, J. 2018. ‘Re-identifying two late antique portraits as Menander and Homer(?)’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 31, 458-473.

  • Lenaghan, J. 2018a. The Lost Shield Portraits of Aphrodisias. Reflections on Style and Patronage. Roma: Scienze e Lettere, 189-216.

  • Lenaghan, J. 2018b. Two portraits from Aphrodisias: Late-antique re-visualizations of traditional culture-heroes? Ann Arbor, Mich.: Editorial Committee of the Journal of Roman Archaeology, 459-473.

  • Lenaghan, J. 2019. ‘Another statue in context: Rhodopaios at Aphrodisias’ in R. Raja (ed.) Visual Histories of the Classical World: Essays in Honour of R.R.R. Smith, Turnhout: Brepols, 502-518.

  • Lenaghan, J. 2021a. Models and Adaptations – Six Statues of Aphrodite from Aphrodisias. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 209-229.

  • Lenaghan, J. 2021b. The Sculptors of Aphrodisias / La Scuola di Afrodisia in 2018. Turnhout: Brepols, 155-182.

  • Lenaghan, J. 2021c. ‘The Statues on the Propylon of the Sebasteion Complex at Aphrodisias: “Grounding” and the Interpretation of Archaeological Context’. Boston, MA: Archaeological Institute of America, 17-36.

  • Linant de Bellefonds, P. 1996. ‘The mythological reliefs from the Agora Gate,’ in C. Roueché and R. R. R. Smith (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 3: The setting and quarries, mythological and other sculptural decoration, architectural development, Portico of Tiberius, and Tetrapylon, Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 20, 174-186.
  • Moltesen, M. 1990. ‘The Aphrodisian Sculptures in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek,’ in C. Roueché and K. T. Erim, (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers. Recent Work on Architecture and Sculpture, Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 1, 133-46.
  • Öğüş, E. 2008. ‘Sarcophagus production: From quarry bock to funerary monument,’ in R.R.R. Smith and J. Lenaghan (eds.), Aphrodisias’tan Roma portreleri (Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias), Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 168-183.
  • Öğüş, E. 2014a. ‘Rise and Fall of Sarcophagus Production at Aphrodisias,’ Phoenix 68, 137-156.
  • Öğüş, E. 2014b. ‘Columnar Sarcophagi from Aphrodisias: Elite Emulation in the Greek East’, American Journal of Archaeology 118, 113–136.
  • Öğüş, E. 2014c. ‘The Archaeology of Aphrodisias’, in Claire Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. 11 Vols. New York: Springer Reference: 289-294.
  • Öğüş, E. 2016. Two sarcophagi made by travelling sculptors?’ in R.R.R. Smith et al. (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 5: Excavation and Research at Aphrodisias, 2006-2012, Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 103, 347-352.
  • Özren, A. Can 1996. ‘Die Skulpturenausstattung kaiserzeitlicher Theater in der Provinz Asia, am Beispiel der Theater in Aphrodisias, Ephesos und Hierapolis,’ Thetis 3, 99-128.
  • Ponti, G. 1996. ‘Ancient quarrying at Aphrodisias in the light of the geological configuration,’ in C. Roueché and R. R. R. Smith (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 3: The setting and quarries, mythological and other sculptural decoration, architectural development, Portico of Tiberius, and Tetrapylon Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 20, 105-110.
  • Rockwell, P. 1991. ‘Unfinished statuary associated with a sculptor’s studio,’ in R.R.R. Smith and K. T. Erim (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 2: the theatre, a sculptor’s workshop, philosophers, and coin-types, Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 2, 127-143.
  • Rockwell, P. 1996. ‘The marble quarries: a preliminary survey,’ in C. Roueché and R. R. R. Smith (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 3: The setting and quarries, mythological and other sculptural decoration, architectural development, Portico of Tiberius, and Tetrapylon Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 20, 81-103.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 1987. ‘The Imperial Reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias,’ Journal of Roman Studies 77, 88-138.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 1988. ‘Simulacra gentium: The Ethne from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias,’ Journal of Roman Studies 78, 50-77.
  • Smith, R. R. R. 1991a. ‘Late Roman philosophers,’ in R.R.R. Smith and K. T. Erim (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 2: the theatre, a sculptor’s workshop, philosophers, and coin-types, Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 2, 144-158.
  • Smith, R. R. R. 1991b. ‘A new portrait of Pythagoras,’ in R.R.R. Smith and K. T. Erim (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 2: the theatre, a sculptor’s workshop, philosophers, and coin-types, Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 2, 159-167.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 1995. ‘A New Shield Portrait in Izmir,’ Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Insituts. Römische Abteilung 102, 331-339.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 1998a. ‘Cultural choice and political identity in honorific portrait statues in the Greek East in the second century A.D.,’ Journal of Roman Studies 88, 56-93.
  • Smith, R. R. R. 1998b. ‘Hellenistic Sculpture under the Roman Empire: Fishermen and Satyrs at Aphrodisias,’ in W. D. E. Coulson and O. Palagia (eds.), Regional Schools in Hellenistic Sculpture, Oxford: Oxbow, 255-262.
  • Smith, R. R. R. 1999a. ‘Late antique portraits in a public context: Honorific statuary at Aphrodisias in Caria, AD 300-600,’ Journal of Roman Studies 99 (1999), 155-189.
  • Smith, R. R. R. 1999b. ‘Herakles and Antaios at Aphrodisias in Caria,’ in G. Tsetskhladze et al. (eds.) Periplous: Essays for Sir John Boardman, London: Thames & Hudson, 298-308.
  • Smith, R. R. R. 1999c. ‘A late Roman portrait and a himation statue from Aphrodisias,’ in H. Friesinger et al. (eds.) 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 713-719.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 2001. ‘A Portrait monument for Julian and Theodosius at Aphrodisias, in C. Reusser (ed.), Griechenland in der Kaiserzeit : neue Funde und Forschungen zu Skulptur, Architektur und Topographie ; Kolloquium zum 60. Geburtstag von Prof. Dietrich Willers, Bern, 12.-13. Juni 1998, Zürich: Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Bern, 125-136.
  • Smith, R. R. R. 2002. ‘The Statue Monument of Oecumenius: A New Portrait of a Late Antique Governor from Aphrodisias’, Journal of Roman Studies 92, 134-156.
  • Smith, R. R. R. 2007. ‘Statue life in the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias, AD 100-600: Local context and historical meaning,’ in F.A. Bauer and C. Witschel (eds.), Statuen in der Spätantike, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 203-235.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 2008a. ‘Roman portraits and marble production at Aphrodisias,’ in R.R.R. Smith and J. Lenaghan (eds.), Aphrodisias’tan Roma portreleri (Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias), Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 8-33.
  • Smith, R.R.R., 2008b. ‘Sculptors’ workshops: Inscriptions, images, and archaeology,’ in R. R. R. Smith and J. Lenaghan (eds.), Aphrodisias’tan Roma portreleri (Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias), Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 102-119.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 2011. ‘Marble workshops at Aphrodisias,’ in F. D’Andria and I. Romeo (eds.), Roman Sculpture in Asia Minor. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 80, 62-76.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 2012a. ‘Monuments for New Citizens in Rome and Aphrodisias,’ in F. de Angelis et al. (eds.), Kunst von unten? Stil und Gesellschaft der antiken Welt von der ‘arte plebeia’ bis heute: Internationales Kolloquium anlässich des 70. Geburtstages von Paul Zanker, Rom, Villa Massimo, 8-9. Juni 2007. Wiesbaden: Palilia 27, 171-84.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 2012b. ‘Defacing the gods at Aphrodisias,’ in B. Dignas and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World Oxford: Oxford University Press, 283-326.

  • Smith, R.R.R. and Hallett, C.H. 2015. ‘Troilos and Achilles: A monumental statue group from Aphrodisias,’ Journal of Roman Studies 105 2015, 124-182.
  • Smith, R.R.R. 2016. ‘Three statues and a portrait head: four new finds of public statuary’ in R.R.R. Smith et al. (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 5: Excavation and Research at Aphrodisias, 2006-2012, Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 103, 292-302.

  • Smith, R.R.R. 2018. ‘The long lives of Roman statues: Public monuments in late antique Aphrodisias’, in M. Aurenhammer (ed), Sculpture in Roman Asia. Proceedings of the Conference in Selcuk 2013 (Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna 2018), 331-352.

  • Smith, R.R.R. 2019. ‘Mythology and Sarcophagi at Aphrodisias and Rome’, in C.H. Hallett (ed), Flesheaters: An international symposium on Roman Sarcophagi (Sarkophag-Studien 11, Wiesbaden 2019), 161-175.


  • Snijder, G. A. S. 1935. ‘Ein römisches bronzeportrait aus Aphrodisias,’ La critica d’arte 1, 30-33.
  • Squarciapino, M. 1943. La scuola di Afrodisia. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider.
  • Squarciapino, M. Floriani, ‘La scuola di Aphrodisias (dopo 40 anni),’ in R.R.R. Smith and K. T. Erim (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 2: the theatre, a sculptor’s workshop, philosophers, and coin-types, Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 2, 123-126.

  • Thomas, J. J. 2019. “The Statues of the Cyclops”: Reconstructing a Public Monument from Aphrodisas in Caria, Istanbuler Mitteilungen 68, 143-172.

  • Thomas, J. J. 2022. ‘The Colossal Figural Consoles of the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias’, Istanbuler Mitteilungen 72, 1-91.

  • Turnbow Awan, H. 2008. ‘The display of sarcophagi in the cemeteries of Aphrodisias,’ in R.R.R. Smith and J. Lenaghan (eds.), Aphrodisias’tan Roma portreleri (Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias), Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 152-167.
  • Van Voorhis, J. 1998. ‘Apprentices’ Pieces and the Training of Sculptors at Aphrodisias,’ Journal of Roman Archaeology 11, 175-192.
  • Van Voorhis, J. 2008a. ‘The training of marble sculptors at Aphrodisias,’ in R.R.R. Smith and J Lenaghan (eds.), Aphrodisias’tan Roma portreleri (Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias), Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 120-135.
  • Van Voorhis, J. 2008b. ‘Two portrait statues of boxers and the culture of athletics in the 3rd c. A.D.,’ in C. Ratté, and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monuments. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 70, 230-252.

  • Van Voorhis, J. 2019. ‘Reconsidering the Sculptor’s Workshop at Aphrodisias’ in R. Raja (ed.) Visual Histories of the Classical World: Essays in Honour of R.R.R. Smith, Turnhout: Brepols, 489-501.
  • Vermeule, C. 1964. ‘Aphrodisiaca: Satyr, Maenad and Eros,’ in L. F. Sandler, ed., Essays in Memory of Karl Lehmann, New York: Institute of Fine Arts, 359-374.
  • Vorster, C. 2012-2013. ‘Spätantike Bildhauerwerkstätten in Rom. Beobacthungen zur Idealskulptur der nachkonstantischen Zeit,’ Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Rom 127/128, 393-497.
  • Welch, K. and Gensheimer, M. 2013. ‘The Achilles and Penthesilea Statue Group from the Tetrastyle Court of the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias,’ Istanbuler Mitteilungen 63, 325-77.

  • Yıldırım, B. 2005. Karya’daki Aphrodisias’da bulunan Sivil Roma: Bazilikasının kabartmaları, İstanbul: Homer Kitabevi, 133-145.
  • Yıldırım, B. 2008. ‘The date of the reliefs from the colonnades of the Civil Basilica,’ in C. Ratté, and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monuments, Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 70, 107-130.

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