Usak müzesi'nden bir grup koku kabı ve Lidya parfüm endüstrisi

Abstract

Mostly being among the finds of graves, lydia can also be seen in residential areas. However, only two samples have been found in sacred areas. These finds were recorded in Karia Labraunda and Amyzon. Lydia and paKKapi~, which were obviously used in funeral rituals due to the abundance offinds, are also understood to have been used in daily life in the light ofancient written records and the finds ofresidential areas. This Lydian cosmetic, mentioned first in a poem by Hipponaks in the 6th century, is also dealt with by ancient writers of the 5th century and 4th century B.C. The fact that paKKapi~, never mentioned from the 4th century B.C until 1st century B.C in ancient records, was used in powder between 1st and 3rd centuries A.D, has been reported by Pilinius and Dioscurides. While convenient to use in powder, lydia with large mouth parts and no lids should have had dark liquidform that had been prepared as cream. The earliest contex lydia obtained among the ruins of nekropol in Anatolia (Pitane) and Italy (Taranto) prove that paKKapi~ began to be used and traded overseas in between late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C. Datedfrom 580 B.C. Rumpfhas reported that the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 6th century B.C. were the period during which lydia were the most common and contex finds support this idea. In the middle of the century, paKKapi~ was so popular as to provide an opportunity to produce a large number of lydia in different geographies and in different forms and decorations. The production and trade ofpaKKapi~, which began to fall with the end of the century, went on decreasing until the 4th c. B.C. Lydia finds that are of contex material and that belong to the 5th century B.C are very few, and none was obtained in the 4th century B.C. These perfume vases that have carried the traces ofpleasures and tastes belonging to the past over into today's world are the archaeological proofs helping us to appreciate the religious, social and cultural structure of a particular period. Carried into different geographies with their traditional uses, the perfume vases help us follow the traces of not only the cultural interaction patterns but also the commercial links between regions