24 April 2014 – 4 August 2014
Rezan Has Museum – Exhibition Hall
Kadir Has University Rezan Has Museum presents to art lovers and history aficionados yet another exceptional exhibition that will shed light to the evolution of writing. Displaying the adventure of writing from its birth as pictogram to its present state and demonstrating the impact writing and language has on societies, the exhibition entitled, ‘Whispers of Extinct Languages-II’ will be open to visitors between 24 April and 4 August 2014.Encompassing countless deciphered, indecipherable, unknown, and lost languages from pictograms to cuneiform, from Hittite and Phrygian to Urartian, Lycian, and Carian, and from Ancient Greek to Latin, the exhibition will welcome visitors until July 1st.
Time and Place: 15.30 pm, Kadir Has University, – Fener Hall
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Recai Tekoğlu, Assoc. Prof. Hamdi Şahin ve Asst. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Sami Öztürk
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Recai Tekoğlu, Assoc. Prof. Hamdi Şahin ve Asst. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Sami Öztürk
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- Copper Bucket with Ancient Greek inscription, Copper, Byzantion Period, 6th-7th century C.E. “Use this in health, dear lady, for many years.”
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- Detail of the Copper Bucket with Ancient Greek Inscription, Copper, Byzantion Period, 6th-7th centuries C.E.
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- Tablet with Statistical Chart Inscription, Clay, Ancient Babylonian Period, 20th-16th centuries B.C.E. This tablet, which is revealing a statiscial chart, includes inscription about grain ration amounts, the person who delivers it, the remaining amount and the name of the receiver. Tha tablet, which lists the grain accounts of 68 individuals, identifies each of these receivers by giving their proffessions like door opener, accounting chief etc.
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- Votive Bowl with Inscription of Georgios and Polykhronios, Marble, Byzantian Period, 4th-6th centuries C.E. “For Georgios and Polykhronios’s health.”
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- Tomb Stele of Rhodan with Ancient Greek Inscription, Stone, Roman Period, 2nd-3rd centuries C.E. “Zosime (made it built) this stele in memory of her (husband/sister?) Rhodan.”
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- Engraved Brick with Inscription, Terracota, Assyrian Cuneiform, King of Assyria Sanherib Period, 705 B.C.E.- 681 B.C.E. “For his lord (god) Nergal (2) the king of Assyria has (re)built the temple of Sanherib E.GAL.LAM.MES in the city of Tarbishu (3) from its foundation to its bastions.”
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- Lighting Tool with Ancient Greek Inscription That Belongs to Nikephoros, Bronze, Byzantion Period, 10th-11th centuries C.E. “(Lord) Help your servant Nikephoros who has imperial spatharokandidatos and protonotarios of Boukellarion!”
