Between Text and Monument: Unveiling the Architectural Historiography of the Temple of Augustus and Roma at Ancyra offers a critical historiographical analysis of the Temple of Augustus and Roma at Ancyra, integrating textual, visual and material sources to examine the monument’s evolving reception from early modern antiquarianism to its place in modern heritage discourse. Through close engagement with original-language documents, travel literature, archaeological reports and epigraphic records, the study reassesses the ways in which the Augusteum has been interpreted and appropriated across shifting political, cultural and ideological landscapes.

Emphasising both European and local perspectives, it highlights the role of institutional documentation, preservation initiatives and nationalist frameworks in shaping the temple’s historiography. By foregrounding the interrelations between architectural heritage, historical memory and textual representation, the volume contributes to broader debates in architectural history, classical reception and the politics of cultural heritage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kitabın Adı:	Between Text and Monument: Unveiling the Architectural Historiography of the Temple of Augustus and Roma at Ancyra
Yazan:	Yeşim Kutkan Öztürk
Dizi Adı:	History: 516
Yayın Yılı:	2025
Sayfa:	510
Ebat:	16 x 24 cm.
Kağıt:	1. Hamur
Kapak:	Nedim Bali
Cilt/Kapak:	250 gr. Mat, Amerikan Bristol, 4 renk
ISBN/Barkod:	9786256124202

 

Table des matières

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

1. INTRODUCTION
2. EARLY ENCOUNTERS WITH THE AUGUSTEUM: TRAVELLERS AND THEIR RECORDS

2.1.     Discovering the Augusteum

2.1.1.       The Sixteenth-century Habsburg-Ottoman Relations

2.1.2.       The Mission to Süleyman the Magnificent

2.1.3.       Tracing the Steps of the Discovery

2.2.     Representation of the Monument in Travel Literature

2.2.1.       French-speaking Travellers

2.2.2.       English-speaking Travellers

1. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR AUGUSTUS’ WORDS: EXPEDITIONS TO THE SITE

3.1.     Geological Explorations

3.2.     Unveiling the Past: Archaeological Expeditions

3.3.     Recording the Res Gestae Divi Augusti Inscriptions

1. INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON DOCUMENTING THE TEMPLE

OF AUGUSTUS AND ROMA

4.1.     The German Archaeological Institute (DAI) Excavations

4.2.     The Turkish Historical Society (TTK) Excavations

1. VISUAL NARRATIVES OF THE AUGUSTEUM IN TRAVEL

ACCOUNTS

5.1.     Deciphering the Temple through Merchant’s Lens

5.2.     From Laisné to Lucas: Early Visual Representations of the Augusteum

           at the Dawn of the Enlightening Age

1. PICTURING THE PAST: THE TEMPLE OF AUGUSTUS AND ROMA THROUGH ITS NINETEENTH-CENTURY REPRESENTATIONS

6.1.     The Augusteum as an Ancient Scenic Background

6.2.     Texier and the Beaux-Arts Tradition

6.3.     Re-drawing the Augusteum: The 1861 Mission and Its Visual Record

1. METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION OF THE TEMPLE OF AUGUSTUS AND ROMA

7.1.     Re-defining the Augusteum: The 1926 German Excavation

7.2.     The Augusteum and Makridi Bey’s Role in Shaping the National

           Preservation Agenda

7.3.     A Cautious Scholarly Approach: Insights from the 1939 Excavation

7.4.     Preserving the Augusteum: A Scientific Endeavour in Cultural

           Heritage Conservation

7.5.     Progetto Ancyra: Il Tempio di Augusto e Roma ad Ankara

1. CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

INDEX