SNG Tatis (SNG Turkey 10, SNG Tatiş, SNG Turkey X)

Tekin, Oguzk. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Turkey 10: The Yavuz Tatış Collection. Part 1, Ionia and Lydia. (Istanbul, 2016).

This catalogue is the tenth volume of the SNG Turkey Project and covers the Ionian and Lydian coins in the collection of Yavuz Tatış, a businessman and collector living in Izmir (ancient Smyrna). Majority of the coins were acquired from 1993 when Tatış started to form his collection and continued until 2010. It is inferred from the information given by vendors that the provenance of the coins was western Asia Minor in general. The catalogue presents 931
coins dating from Archaic to Roman Imperial period and the most represented ones are from Smyrna, Ephesus, Colophon, Phocaea, Magnesia ad Maeandrum, Miletus and Clazomenae in Ionia and Sardis, Philadelphia, Thyateira, Hypaipa and Magnesia ad Sipylum in Lydia. The unidentified coins are grouped under the title of  "Uncertain Western Asia Minor" at the end of the catalogue.

During the preparation of the catalogue, Arif Yacı, one of my doctoral students, helped me from the beginning; he took the photographs of the coins and revised the catalogue as well. Besides, Michel Amandry, Sencan Altınoluk and Aliye Erol-Özdizbay also revised the catalogue before going into press. Monograms were drawn by Armağan Tan, one of my Master’s students. Thus, I greatly appreciate all their contributions. I would also like to thank Yavuz Tatış, who facilitated my work greatly and provided me with a comfortable atmosphere to conclude my studies on his collection.

This SNG volume, like the previous ones, is published by the Turkish Institute of Archaeology; I would like to thank the Managing Board of the Institute in the person of its President Prof. Dr. Haluk Abbasoğlu. (Oğuz Tekin)

CONTENTS

    Collector’s Note
    Preface
    Abbreviations and Bibliography
    Plates (numbers refer to the plates)
    Ionia
    Koinon of Ionia
    Clazomenae
    Colophon
    Ephesus
    Erythrai
    Heraclea ad Latmum
    Larisa
    Lebedus
    Leucae
    Magnesia ad Maeandrum
    Metropolis
    Miletus
    Myous
    Naulochos
    Phocaea
    Phygela
    Priene
    Smyrna
    Teos
    Islands off Ionia
    Chios
    Samos
    Lydia
    Lydian Kingdom and Early Achaemenid
    Acrasus
    Anineta (Aninetus)
    Apollonis
    Apollonoshieron
    Attaleia
    Bageis
    Blaundos
    Cilbiani Inferiores (Nicaea)
    Cilbiani Superiores
    Daldis
    Dioshieron
    Hermocapeleia
    Hierocaesarea
    Hypaipa
    Hyrcanis
    Julia Gordus
    Kaystrianoi
    Magnesia ad Sipylum
    Maionia
    Mastaura
    Mostene
    Nacrasa
    Nysa
    Philadelphia
    Saitta
    Sala
    Sardis
    Silandos
    Stratonicea-Indeipediate
    Tabala
    Thyateira
    Tralles
    Tripolis
    Uncertain Western Asia Minor
    Indexes
    Concordance

Yavuz Tatış in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yavuz_Tat%C4%B1%C5%9F